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B-423051,B-423051.2 Jan 10, 2025 1 (2025-01-10)

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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 redacted version has
                                           been approved for public release.


Matter of:   Koniag Management  Solutions, Inc.

File:     B-423051; B-423051.2

Date:     January 10,   2025

Devon  E. Hewitt, Esq., and Matthew L. Nicholson, Esq., Potomac Law Group, for the
protester.
Damien  C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Markus G. Speidel, Esq.,
Morrison & Foerster LLP, for ASRC Federal Highland Technology, the intervenor.
John W. Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency.
Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's past performance is
denied, where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of
the solicitation.

2. Protest alleging disparate treatment is denied where the record reflects that
quotations were not substantively indistinguishable from one another.

3. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the
protester has not established that the underlying evaluation was unreasonable.
DECISION

Koniag Management   Solutions, Inc., of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the issuance of a
task order to ASRC Federal Highland Technology (ASRC), of Beltsville, Maryland,
under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19AQMM24Q0007,   issued by the Department
of State (DOS) for software development lifecycle support services. The protester
challenges the agency's evaluation of Koniag's past performance, as well as the source
selection decision.


We  deny the protest.

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