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B-420641,B-420641.2 Jul 05, 2022 1 (2022-07-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaoniq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G 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: Ad Hoc Research Associates, LLC File: B-420641; B-420641.2 Date: July 5, 2022 Terry L. Elling, Esq., Kelsey Hayes, Esq., and Sean R. Belanger, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, P.A., for Advanced Technology Leaders, Inc., the intervenor. Major Michael R. Tregle, Jr., and Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 1. Protest challenging the agency's conduct of discussions is denied where discussions were meaningful and led the offeror into the general areas of its proposal requiring amplification or revision. 2. Protest that agency disparately evaluated proposals is denied because the record reflects that the differences in evaluations were a result of differences in proposals. 3. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated offerors' non-price proposals is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 4. Protest of the agency's selection of a higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for award is denied where the agency's tradeoff analysis was reasonable and documented. DECISION Ad Hoc Research Associates, LLC (Ad Hoc), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), of Havre de Grace, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Advanced Technology Leaders, Inc. (ATL), an SDVOSB, of Martinez, Georgia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91249-21-R-0015, issued by the Department of the Army. The RFP seeks experimentation support for the Cyber Battle Lab (CBL) in Fort

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