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B-417749.2,B-417749.3 1 (2020-03-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxb0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. S...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Abacus Technology Corporation File: B-417749.2; B-417749.3 Date: March 9, 2020 Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Aaron R. Ralph, Esq., and Toghrul M. Shukurlu, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for MicroTechnologies, LLC, the intervenor. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Major Alexander L. Lowry, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to reasonably evaluate whether the awardee would be able to perform the task order services at the price proposed is dismissed where the solicitation did not provide for evaluation of the realism of offerors' prices. DECISION Abacus Technology Corporation (Abacus), of Chevy Chase, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Micro Technologies, LLC (MicroTech), of Vienna, Virginia, under fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR) No. FA5641-19-R-A002, which was issued by Department of the Air Force, for network and infrastructure support services. The protester argues that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's technical proposal and failed to assess whether the awardee could perform the task order requirements at its proposed price. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The FOPR was issued on March 25, 2019, pursuant to the fair opportunity ordering procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 16.505, for a contractor to provide network and infrastructure support services at multiple Air Force locations in