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B-423141 Feb 05, 2025 1 (2025-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaormm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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: PingWind, inc. File: B-423141 Date: February 5, 2025 David B. Dixon, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., Toghrul M. Shukurlu, Esq., and Alexis P. Landrum, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Christian B. Nagel, Esq., Jeremy D. Burkhart, Esq., Sean Belanger, Esq., and Bailey C. McHale, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for Bravura Information Technology Systems, Inc., for the intervenor. Kelly Sledgister-Stehle, Esq., and Debra J. Talley, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Janis R. Millete, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's staffing plan is denied where the record demonstrates the agency reasonably assessed a strength to the awardee's staffing plan. 2. Protest challenging agency's price analysis is denied where the record shows that the price evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest that the agency failed to conduct a proper best-value tradeoff analysis is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency considered the relative merits of the offerors' proposals in its source selection decision and protester otherwise fails to demonstrate that the tradeoff was unreasonable. DECISION PingWind, Inc. a small business of Annandale, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Bravura Information Technology Systems, Inc., (Bravura), a women-owned, minority-owned, small disadvantaged business of Aberdeen, Maryland, under task order reference No. 497699, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Contracting Command, for cybersecurity services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the awardee's staffing plan, the price analysis, and best-value tradeoff determination.

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