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A firm protested a Department of the Air Force's contract award for global engineering, integration, and technical assistance services, contending that the Air Force failed to properly evaluate technical proposals, failed to properly evaluate cost/price, and failed to perform a reasonable tradeoff between cost/price and technical factors. GAO found that (1) awardees' solicitation provided that an offeror's technical capacity to respond to workload requirements around the world was the most important consideration under two of the three technical evaluation factors; (2) the solicitation unambiguously advised offerors of the Air Force's intended method of evaluation, and the protester responded to the solicitation without objection; and (3) the solicitation established cost/price as the least important evaluation factor, and provided that it was significantly less important than the combined technical factors. Accordingly, the protest was denied.