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B-413478.3 1 (2016-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadstk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matter of: Alpha-Omega Change Engineering, Inc File: Date: B-413478.3 November 14, 2016 Robert E. Korroch, Esq., and William A. Wozniak, Esq., Williams Mullen, for the protester. Matthew Merritt, for Sonoran Technology-Professional Services, LLC, an intervenor. Col. C. Taylor Smith, Esq., and Capt. Ryan P. Payne, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's best-value award decision is denied where the record shows that the source selection authority reasonably concluded that the higher-rated, higher-priced proposal offered the best value to the government. DECISION Alpha-Omega Change Engineering, Inc. (Alpha), of Williamsburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Sonoran Technology and Professional Services, LLC (Sonoran), of Goodyear, Arizona, by the Department of the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA6800-16-R-0001 for contract aircrew training and courseware development (CAT/CWD). We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On February 29, 2016, the RFP was issued to obtain personnel, equipment and services to perform B-1 and B-521 CAT/CWD services to train and initially qualify 1 The B-1 and B-52 are strategic bomber aircraft used by the Air Force Global Strike Command in support of nuclear deterrence and global strike operations. RFP, (continued...)