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B-422527.3,B-422527.4 Oct 23, 2024 1 (2024-10-23)

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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
                                               The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                               a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Decision                                       been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Sumaria Systems, LLC

File:     B-422527.3; B-422527.4

Date:     October 23,   2024

James  Y. Boland, Esq., Caleb E. McCallum, Esq., and Kelly M. Boppe, Esq.,
Venable LLP, for the protester.
Christian N. Curran, Esq., Daniel R. Forman, Esq., Zachary H. Schroeder, Esq., and
Roxanne  N. Cassidy, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Applied Research Solutions, Inc.,
the intervenor.
Colonel Patricia Wiegman Lenz, and Nicholas T. Iliff, Jr., Esq., Department of the
Air Force, for the agency.
Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Todd C. Culliton, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's task order proposal is denied where the
record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's
evaluation criteria.

2. Protest that agency conducted an unequal technical evaluation is denied where the
record shows that the differences in the evaluation were reasonably based on
differences in the offerors' proposals.

3. Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's proposal by considering document that
the solicitation provided would not be credited is denied where the record shows that
although the agency cited the document in support of the evaluation, the error was not
prejudicial because the information in the document was duplicative of other information
that was properly considered.
DECISION

Sumaria Systems,  LLC, of Fairborn, Ohio, a small business, protests the issuance of a
task order to Applied Research Solutions, Inc., of Beavercreek, Ohio, also a small
business, under fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. 73, issued by the
Department  of the Air Force, for engineering, professional, administrative, and support
services for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. Sumaria argues that the Air

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