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B-410307,B-410307.3 1 (2014-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqtv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Alliance Technical Services, Inc. File: B-410307; B-410307.3 Date: December 1,2014 Michael J. Gardner, Esq., Troutman Sanders LLP, for the protester. Holly A. Roth, Esq., David E. Frulla, Esq., and Elizabeth C. Johnson, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for Delta Solutions & Strategies, LLC, the intervenor. Erika L. Whelan Retta, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly evaluated awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's terms. DECISION Alliance Technical Services, Inc. (ATS), of Norfolk, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Delta Solutions & Strategies, LLC, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4613-13-R- 1001 for various data support services. ATS primarily argues that the agency improperly found Delta's proposal to be technically acceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on May 6, 2013, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for technical order library and maintenance data support services at F.E. Warren Air Force Base (AFB), Malmstrom AFB, Minot AFB, and Vandenberg AFB, to the firm whose offer will be most advantageous to the government, considering price, past performance and technical acceptability. RFP at 69-70. Technical acceptability was to be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. Past performance was to be evaluated for recency, relevance, and performance, and to be assigned a performance