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B-420098,B-420098.2,B-420098.3 Dec 01, 2021 1 (2021-12-01)

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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
Decision                            a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of:  Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
File:      B-420098; B-420098.2; B-420098.3
Date:      December 1, 2021
Kristen E. Ittig, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Anna L. Dykema, Esq., Arnold &
Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for the protester.
J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Rebecca E. Pearson, Esq., Taylor A. Hillman, Esq.,
Christopher G. Griesedieck, Esq., Lindsay M. Reed, Esq., and Caleb E. McCallum,
Esq., Venable, LLP, for Leidos, Inc., the intervenor.
Rebecca Tatum, Esq., Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., and Sean B.
Brady, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging agency evaluation of proposals and tradeoff decision is denied where
the evaluation and tradeoff decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the
solicitation.
DECISION
Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task
order to Leidos, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, pursuant to fair opportunity procurement
request (FOPR) No. FA8730-21 -F-01 13, under the General Services Administration's
(GSA) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) multiple award,
indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for engineering services. The protester
alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation and in the conduct of its best-suited
offeror tradeoff decision.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The FOPR seeks to procure engineering and integration support for the Air Force's
Medusa system, which provides the capability to detect, identify, track, and defeat
small unpiloted aerial systems, as well as rockets and mortars. Agency Report (AR),
Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. The effort includes both system