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B-421123 Dec 28, 2022 1 (2022-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaoobs0001 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: iSenpai, LLC File: B-421123 Date: December 28, 2022 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., John L. Holtz, Esq., Stephanie L. Ellis, Esq., Gregory P. Weber, Esq., Koprince McCall Pottroff LLC, for the protester. Colonel Frank Yoon, Major Ashley M. Ruhe, Major Alissa J. Schrider, and Laura L. Atkinson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging non-selection for the establishment of a basic ordering agreement is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and adequately documented. DECISION iSenpai, LLC, a small business of Manassas, Virginia, protests its non-selection for the establishment of a basic ordering agreement (BOA) under Department of the Air Force request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA8307-22-R-0199 for software development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) services. iSenpai argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated its quotation and failed to document that evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on August 15, 2022, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 16, sought to establish multiple BOAs with qualified vendors interested in providing DevSecOps services for the Air Force. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFQ Instructions at 1. The RFQ provided for a three-step evaluation process. AR, Tab 13, Final RFQ Instructions at 4-5. First, the Air Force would review quotations for compliance with the terms of the RFQ (e.g., page limits and font sizes). Id. Second, the Air Force would evaluate compliant quotations for technical capability, assigning a rating of highly capable, capable, or not capable. Id. at 5-6. Only vendors with a rating of highly capable would be invited to the third step, the oral presentation/portfolio review. Id.

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