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B-420913,B-420913.3,B-420913.4 Nov 03, 2022 1 (2022-11-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaonwm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 i a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has + + +been approved for public release. Matter of: National TRU Solutions, LLC File: B-420913; B-420913.3; B-420913.4 Date: November 3, 2022 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Andrew C. Crawford, Esq., and Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and W. Benjamin Phillips, III, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Tularosa Basin Range Services, LLC, the intervenor. James J. Jurich, Esq., Stephanie B. Young, Esq., Nicholas Bidwell, Esq., Greta Iliev, Esq., and Sky Smith, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Challenge to evaluation of the protester's and awardee's technical proposals and past performance is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest contending that exchanges conducted with the awardee regarding the awardee's price proposal were improper discussions is denied where the exchanges amounted to clarifications of vague information contained within the offeror's proposal and did not afford the awardee the opportunity to revise its proposal. 3. Agency's post-proposal submission exchanges with awardee regarding its small business subcontracting plan were clarifications rather than discussions where the information pertains to offeror responsibility, which may be provided any time prior to award. 4. Protest that agency improperly evaluated the proposed role of an affiliate of the awardee is denied where record shows that the awardee's proposal met the requirements for proposing an affiliate and the agency's evaluation was not unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.

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