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B-422346.2 Jan 14, 2025 1 (2025-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaorlc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G AO 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: KR Contracting, Inc. File: B-422346.2 Date: January 14, 2025 Adam K. Lasky, Esq., Erica L. Bakies, Esq., Bret C. Marfut, Esq., and Ryan Gilchrist, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw LLP, for the protester. Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Kelly A. Kirchgasser, Esq., Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., and Tracey L. Pruiett, Esq., Piliero Mazza, PLLC, for VMD Corporation, the intervenor. Michael Kiffney, Esq., and Christopher J. Curry, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the protester's proposal and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis is denied where the record shows that, although the solicitation contained a latent ambiguity, the protester was not competitively prejudiced by the ambiguity, and the agency's evaluation and best-value tradeoff analysis were otherwise reasonable. DECISION KR Contracting, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to VMD Corporation, of Fairfax, Virginia, under task order request for proposals (TORFP) No. 70T05024R5900N002, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for comprehensive security screening services at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Florida. KR asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis. We deny the protest.

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