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B-422862.2 Dec 30, 2024 1 (2024-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaorhy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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: Tuknik Government Services, LLC File: B-422862.2 Date: December 30, 2024 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Matthew L. Nicholson, Esq., Potomac Law Group, for the protester. Thomas K. David, Esq., and Lewis Rhodes, Esq., Reston Law Group, LLP, for Improvix Technologies Inc., the intervenor. John W. Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of quotations is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law. DECISION Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a small business of Anchorage, Alaska, challenges the issuance of a task order to Improvix Technologies, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19AQMM24Q0049, issued under the General Services Administration's Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract by the Department of State for cloud program management information technology (IT) services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in evaluating quotations and in the conduct of its best-value tradeoff. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 12, 2024, the agency issued the RFQ seeking cloud program management IT services. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 3. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a single task order on a primarily labor-hour basis with a 1-year base period of performance and four 1-year options. Agency Report (AR), Tab 30, RFQ at 13, 61. The RFQ contemplated a best-value tradeoff between

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