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B-419464,B-419464.2 Mar 19, 2021 1 (2021-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaolic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: TekSynap Corporation File: B-419464; B-419464.2 Date: March 19, 2021 Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Todd M. Garland, Esq., and Nora K. Brent, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. William K. Walker, Esq., Walker Reausaw, for Chenega Agile Real-Time Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Bree A. Ermentrout, Esq., and Graham Day, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the contemporaneous record shows that the agency unreasonably evaluated the proposals under the technical/management factor, and there is a reasonable possibility that the protester was prejudiced by the agency's errors. DECISION TekSynap Corporation, a small business, of Reston, Virginia, protests the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) award of a contract to Chenega Agile Real-Time Solutions, LLC (CARS), a small business, of Lorton, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HM0476-20-R-0001, to provide various enterprise management information technology (IT) support services. TekSynap asserts that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions, unreasonably evaluated proposals under the technical/management evaluation and price factors, and made an unreasonable best-value determination. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On March 9, 2020, the agency issued RFP No. HM0476-20-R-0001 (referred to as the Enterprise Management Services (EMS) procurement), contemplating the single award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract and the simultaneous award

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