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G A OL 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: Babel Street, Inc.
File: B-418730.5; B-418730.6
Date: June 15, 2021
Damien C. Specht, Esq., R. Locke Bell, Esq., and Victoria Dalcourt Angle, Esq.,
Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Seth H. Locke, Esq., Alexander O. Canizares, Esq., Brenna D. Duncan, Esq., and
Julia M. Fox, Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for Dataminr, Inc., the intervenor.
Jason R. Smith, Esq., Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., and
Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the evaluation of past performance is denied where the
evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest that the agency applied unstated evaluation criteria in its technical evaluation
is denied, where the agency is not required to advise offerors of the benefit it will find in
particular aspects of offerors' proposals.
3. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the
selection of the higher technically rated, higher-priced proposal was reasonable and
consistent with the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION
Babel Street, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract
to Dataminr, Inc., of New York, New York, under request for proposals (RFP) No.
FA7014-20-R-0005, which was issued by the Department of the Air Force for the
publicly available information alerting Department of Defense enterprise license
subscription (PADELS) service.1 The protester contends that the Air Force conducted a
1 According to the agency, [t]he requirement was for a commercially-available solution
to evaluate publicly available information in real time, in order to provide situational
awareness, force protection, and indications and warnings to Combatant Commands
and Military Services on global events. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaolwa0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)