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B-415529 1 (2018-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadufa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Beacon Grace, LLC File: B-415529 Date: January 16, 2018 Becky R. Willard for the protester. Roland Baumann III, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's proposal is denied where the record reasonably supports the agency's evaluation and where any errors committed by the agency did not cause competitive prejudice to the protester. DECISION Beacon Grace, LLC, a small business of Hagerstown, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Qi-Tech, LLC, a small business of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTNH22-17-R-00033, issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), for technical support services for the agency's non-traffic surveillance system. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical and price proposals. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DOT issued the solicitation on April 26, 2017, as a set-aside for small business concerns. RFP at 1, 42. The solicitation sought proposals to provide services associated with the agency's non-traffic surveillance system.' RFP at 2. In general, the 1 The non-traffic surveillance system is a virtual data collection system designed to provide counts and details regarding fatalities and injuries in non-traffic crash incidents and in non-crash incidents. RFP at 5; Agency Req. for Dismissal at 2.