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B-420969,B-420969.2 Nov 21, 2022 1 (2022-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaonxx0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Deque Systems, Inc. File: B-420969; B-420969.2 Date: November 21, 2022 Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., and William B. O'Reilly, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Michael J. Anstett, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for IronArch Technology, LLC, the intervenor. Mary G. Courtney, Esq., Annemarie Drazenovich, Esq., and Reza Behinia, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. David A. Edelstein, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's evaluation of awardee's technical proposal is denied where protester has not demonstrated that the agency's evaluation was unreasonable. 2. Protest of agency's evaluation of offerors' past performance is denied where solicitation did not require agency to compare the relevance of past performance examples and protester has not demonstrated that the evaluation was otherwise unreasonable. 3. Protest that agency did not evaluate transition risk is dismissed where solicitation did not require such an evaluation. DECISION Deque Systems, Inc., a small business of Herndon, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to IronArch Technology, LLC, a small business of McLean, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C1 0B22R0002, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for accessibility compliance software services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of offerors' proposals and alleges that the agency made an unreasonable best-value determination. We deny the protest.

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