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B-421148 Nov 22, 2022 1 (2022-11-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaonxy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Acoustic Technology, Inc. File: B-421148 Date: November 22, 2022 Antonio P. Cracchiolo and Tarek Bassiouni, for the protester. Nicholas T. Iliff, Esq., and Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of protester's proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Acoustic Technology, Inc., doing business as ATI Systems (ATI), a small business of Boston, Massachusetts, protests the award of a contract to EWING Engineered Solutions, of Allen, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA670322R0003, which was issued by the Department of the Air Force for the upgrade of a Giant Voice (GV) alert system at Dobbins Air Reserve Base (ARB) in Marietta, Georgia. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and resulting award decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP as a combined synopsis/solicitation pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 13 on July 18, 2022, and subsequently amended it three times. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2, 4.1 The RFP sought proposals to engineer, design, furnish, install, and test a turnkey GV system 1 Citations to the record are to the numbered pages provided by the agency in its report, unless otherwise noted.