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B-422339 May 07, 2024 1 (2024-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqhz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G- AOU.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: Quadrant Training Solutions, JV File: B-422339 Date: May 7, 2024 J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., Beth V. McMahon, Esq., and Jacob D. Noe, Esq., Reaves GovCon Group, for the protester. Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., and Timothy J. Laughlin, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for Aviation Training Consulting, LLC, the intervenor. Colonel Christine Piper, Siobhan K. Donahue, Esq., and Michael V. Porter, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably failed to consider the performance risk of the awardee's low price is dismissed for failure to state a valid basis of protest where the fixed-price solicitation did not contemplate a price realism evaluation. DECISION Quadrant Training Solutions, JV, a small business of Oviedo, Florida, protests the issuance of a task order to Aviation Training Consulting, LLC, a small business of Saint Altus, Oklahoma, under fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. FA8621-23-R- 6276, issued by the Department of the Air Force for aircrew instruction and courseware development services. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably failed to consider the risk inherent in the awardee's low price during the evaluation of proposals and in the best-value tradeoff analysis. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part. BACKGROUND On December 14, 2022, the agency issued the solicitation as a small business set-aside to firms holding the agency's training system acquisition III multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS)

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