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B-421651 Jul 24, 2023 1 (2023-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaopcu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O US. 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 v been approved for public release. Matter of: Obsidian Solutions Federal Services, LLC File: B-421651 Date: July 24, 2023 Milton C. Johns, Esq., Executive Law Partners, PLLC, for the protester. Lieutenant Colonel Jason R. Hull, Max D. Houtz, Esq., Darren S. Gilkes, Esq., William Whitman, Esq., and James Durkee, Esq., Defense Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's selection of a higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for issuance of a task order is unobjectionable where the agency's best-value tradeoff decision was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Obsidian Federal Solutions Group, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Fredericksburg, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, LLC, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HHM402-23-Q-0002. The Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) issued the RFQ for risk assessment labor services at the DIA Directorate of Logistics and Global Readiness, Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Program Office (PO). The protester argues that the best-value tradeoff was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On December 5, 2022, the agency issued the solicitation to small business vendors under the General Services Administration's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS), multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract in accordance with the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 16.505. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFQ at 1, 26; AR, Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1-2. The solicitation anticipated the issuance of a fixed-price labor-hour task order for a 1-year base period, four 12-month option

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