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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                           of the United States
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                                           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: Alphaport Inc.--Reconsideration

File:       B-414086.3

Date:       May 23, 2017

Bradley D. Wine, Esq., Tina D. Reynolds, Esq., Steven W. Cave, Esq., and Sandeep N.
Nandivada, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Edward T. DeLisle, Esq., Jacqueline J. Ryan, Esq., Maria L. Panichelli, Esq., and Carl J.
Vernetti, Esq., Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, for Banner Quality
Management, Inc., an intervenor.
Richard J. McCarthy, Esq., Macallister A. West, Esq., and Oliver J. Dunford, Esq.,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency.
Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Request for reconsideration is denied where the requesting party has not shown that
our decision contains either errors of fact or law that warrant reversal or modification of
the decision.
DECISION

Alphaport, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, requests that we reconsider our decision in
Alphaport, Inc., B-414086, B-414086.2, Feb. 10, 2017, 2017 CPD   69, in which we
denied Alphaport's protest challenging the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) award of a contract to Banner Quality Management, Inc.
(Banner), of Ellicott City, Maryland pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No.
NNC16ZNA009R for technical support services. Alphaport argues that our decision
contained errors of law that warrant reconsideration of our decision.

We deny the request for reconsideration.

BACKGROUND

The RFP was issued on March 24, 2016, under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
part 15 and set aside for woman-owned small businesses. RFP at 00423, 00645. The
solicitation contemplated the award of a single cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, with a