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B-422698.2 Jan 08, 2025 1 (2025-01-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaoriu0001 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: The Mission Essential Group, LLC File: B-422698.2 Date: January 8, 2025 Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Roee Talmor, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester. Colonel Nina R. Padalino, Josephine R. Farinelli, Esq., W. Trent Fox, Esq., and David J. Dusseau, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a solicitation improperly provides for award on a lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA) basis is sustained where the agency unreasonably determined that the statutory and regulatory requirements for use of LPTA award criteria were satisfied. DECISION The Mission Essential Group, LLC (Mission Essential), of New Albany, Ohio, protests the terms of fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. FA564124R0004, issued by the Department of the Air Force for pilot augmentation support services in Europe and Africa. The protester contends that the solicitation improperly provides for award of a task order on a lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA) basis. The protester also contends that numerous solicitation terms are improper and unduly restrictive of competition. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On June 6, 2024, the agency issued the FOPR to holders of the Air Force's Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS V) contract, a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.' Agency Report (AR), Tab 28, FOPR at 2. The solicitation, which was issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 1 Citations in the decision use the Adobe PDF pagination.

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