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B-421639.4 Mar 13, 2024 1 (2024-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqbd0001 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 version has been - - - - - - approved for public release. Matter of: Arcticom LLC File: B-421639.4 Date: March 13, 2024 Kenneth A. Martin, Esq., The Martin Law Firm, PLLC, for the protester. Robert K. Palmer, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging evaluation of the relevancy of awardee's past performance is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and conducted in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the record reflects that the agency reasonably found that protester's slightly superior technical proposal was not worth its higher price. DECISION Arcticom, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the award of a contract to Lakota Solutions, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Sitka, Alaska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SP3300-22-R-5006, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for labor and logistics support services. Arcticom challenges both the evaluation of the awardee's past performance and the agency's best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on August 16, 2022, seeking labor and logistics support services at DLA Distribution Norfolk and DLA Land & Maritime at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, both located in Portsmouth, Virginia. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 3; Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, RFP at 7. The solicitation, issued as a set-aside under the Small Business Administration's (SBA)

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