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B-421221.4,B-421221.5 Apr 25, 2023 1 (2023-04-25)

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                   U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States

                                             DOCUMENT  FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

D   e c is ioThe decision issued on the date below was subject to
   DeCISIOn                                a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has now
                                           been approved for public release.

Matter of:   HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Inc.

File:        B-421221.4; B-421221.5

Date:       April 25, 2023

Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the
protester.
Edward  J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for Gunnison Consulting Group, Inc., the
intervenor.
Julie A. Neville, Esq., Administrative Office of the United States Courts, for the agency.
Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest of agency's technical evaluation is denied where the evaluation was
reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.

2. Challenge to agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows
that the decision was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

DECISION

HII Mission Driven Innovative Solutions, Inc. (HII Mission), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests
its non-selection for the establishment of a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement
(BPA), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. USCA21 Q0014, which was issued by
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) for information
technology (IT) support and services.1 HII Mission challenges the AOUSC's evaluation
of its technical quotation, as well as the agency's best-value tradeoff decision.


1 The AOUSC  established BPAs with the following firms: Accenture Federal Services
LLC (Accenture); General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT); Gunnison
Consulting Group, Inc. (Gunnison); Lamb Informatics Limited (Lamb); and 22nd Century
Technologies, Inc. (22nd Century). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 4;
Memorandum   of Law (MOL) at 2.

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