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  "description": "You might care.\n\nCategories: Cost realism, best value tradeoff\n\nDate: 5 December 2025\n\nURL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423731\n\nTactical Engineering protests the issuance of a Seaport NxG task order to TMC Technologies of West Virginia for Navy track management services. The source selection produced a stark contrast:\n\n * Tactical was rated outstanding (technical) with satisfactory confidence (past performance) at an evaluated cost of $112.9 million;\n * TMC was rated marginal (technical) with",
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  "textContent": "### You might care.\n\n**Categories:** Cost realism, best value tradeoff\n\n**Date:** 5 December 2025\n\n**URL:** https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423731\n\nTactical Engineering protests the issuance of a Seaport NxG task order to TMC Technologies of West Virginia for Navy track management services. The source selection produced a stark contrast:\n\n  * Tactical was rated outstanding (technical) with satisfactory confidence (past performance) at an evaluated cost of $112.9 million;\n  * TMC was rated marginal (technical) with limited confidence (past performance) at $85.7 million.\n  * The SSA selected TMC, concluding that Tactical's technical superiority was not worth the approximately $27 million cost premium.\n\n\n\nTactical challenged the Navy's cost realism analysis and the best-value tradeoff decision. On cost realism, GAO found the agency's analysis was reasonably documented and consistent with the solicitation. On the tradeoff, GAO found the SSA performed a documented qualitative comparison and reasonably concluded the cost differential did not justify the higher-rated proposal.\n\nThe protest is denied.\n\n#### Digest\n\n  1. Protest challenging cost realism analysis is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.\n  2. Protest that the agency failed to conduct a proper best-value tradeoff is denied where the selection decision was reasonable and adequately documented.\n\n",
  "title": "Tactical Engineering - Analysis, Inc. (B-423731)",
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