Highlights
MPZA, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Gaithersburg, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Eagle Harbor, LLC, a small disadvantaged business of Anchorage, Alaska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 155A00021R00000101, issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for information technology (IT) support services. The protester challenges the agency's price evaluation and resulting best-value tradeoff. The protester also alleges Eagle Harbor had an unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest (OCI), and that the awardee gained an unfair competitive advantage from the hiring of a former agency employee.
We sustain the protest in part, deny it in part, and dismiss it in part.
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The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release.
Decision
Matter of: MPZA, LLC
File: B-421568; B-421568.2
Date: July 3, 2023
Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, for the protester.
James Y. Boland, Esq, Michael T. Francel, Esq., and Emily R. Marcy, Esq., Venable LLP, for Eagle Harbor, LLC, the intervenor.
Nathan E. Mires, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency.
Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging agency’s price evaluation is sustained where...
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