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B-421306,B-421306.2 Feb 15, 2023 1 (2023-02-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaoogw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.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. No party requested redactions; D ecisio n we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Matter of: American Electronics, Inc. File: B-421306; B-421306.2 Date: February 15, 2023 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. Matthew Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., John M. Mattox II, Esq., Ian P. Patterson, Esq., and Timothy J. Laughlin, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for StraCon Services Group, LLC, the intervenor. Brian Ritter, Esq., and Aldo Perez, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency evaluated task order proposals contrary to the terms of the solicitation by weighting and rating three elements under the technical factor, and failed to make a proper best-value tradeoff is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation and tradeoff were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. DECISION American Electronics, Inc., a small business of California, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to StraCon Services Group, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, also a small business, under task order request/fair opportunity notice (TOR/FON) No. N00421-22-R-0092. The Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, issued the task order for equipment and services to support foreign military sales customers and new customer development efforts, primarily at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, in Maryland. Contracting Officer's Statement and Memorandum of Law (COS/MOL) at 3. American, the incumbent contractor, argues that its task order proposal was misevaluated and that the Navy failed to conduct a reasonable cost-technical tradeoff in selecting StraCon's higher-priced proposal. We deny the protest.