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Best Value, Not Best Ratings: GAO Rejects Protester’s Tradeoff Challenge

The protester objected to the agency's issuance of a task order for support services, arguing, among other things, that the agency conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff based solely on adjectival ratings.

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