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Same Rating, Higher Price: Why Did the Incumbent Still Win?

The protester challenged the agency's best-value tradeoff decision, arguing that because both offerors received identical "substantial confidence" past performance ratings, the agency should have awarded the contract to the lower-priced offeror—itself.

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