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B-416669.7 1 (2019-11-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeahl0001 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: 22nd Century Technologies, Inc.--Reconsideration File: B-416669.7 Date: November 14, 2019 Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., David S. Cohen, Esq., and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cordatis LLP, for the requester. Stephen Hernandez, Esq., and Harry M. Parent, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for reconsideration of dismissal of one ground of protest is denied where requester has not shown any error of fact or law warranting reversal or modification of the decision. DECISION 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, asks that we reconsider our decision in 22nd Century Techs., Inc., B-416669.5, B-416669.6, August 5, 2019, 2019 CPD T 285, in which we denied 22nd Century's protest of the issuance of a task order to Lin Tech Global, Inc., of Farmington Hills, Michigan, under request for task order proposals (TOPR) No. W91 QF4-R-0005, issued by the Department of the Army for information technology (IT) and support services. The requester alleges an error of law with regard to a single issue that was dismissed in our decision, concerning the agency's evaluation of past performance. We deny the request. BACKGROUND The TOPR, issued on May 18, 2018, contemplated the issuance of a task order to be made on a best-value tradeoff basis considering the following evaluation factors: technical response, management and staffing plan, past performance, organizational conflict of interest (OCI) mitigation plan, and price. TOPR at 27. The TOPR advised that the technical response and management and staffing factors were of equal