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B-418783 Sep 03, 2020 1 (2020-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaolnm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
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: Quanterion Solutions, Inc.
File:     B-418783
Date:     September 3, 2020
Bret S. Wacker, Esq., Clark Hill PLC, and Evan Rossi, Esq., Rossi & Rossi, for the
protester.
Donald J. Walsh, Esq., Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP, for the intervenor.
Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Lieutenant Colonel Damund E. Williams, Matthew J.
Ruane, Esq., and Wilbert W. Edgerton, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the
agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest is denied where agency's evaluation of protester's proposal was reasonable and
consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION
Quanterion Solutions, Inc., a small business of Utica, New York, protests the award of a
contract to SURVICE Engineering Company, a small business of Belcamp, Maryland,
under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8075-20-R-0001, issued by Department of the
Air Force for research and development services for the Department of Defense (DOD)
information analysis center (IAC) basic center of operations (BCO). Quanterion protests
that the agency unreasonably evaluated its past performance, technical, and price
proposals.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The IAC BCO contract will consolidate the operation of the following three information
analysis centers: the cybersecurity and information system IAC (CSIAC), the defense
systems IAC (DSIAC), and the homeland defense and security IAC (HDIAC). Agency
Report (AR), Tab 8, RFP amend. 3 at 5. The IAC BCO contract will be focused on
knowledge collection, analysis, synthesis, and dissemination of engineering, scientific

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