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B-406865 1 (2012-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpbh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General Accountabi ty Integrity I ReabflitV of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been Decision approved for public releas e. Matter of. Oklahoma State University File: B-406865 Date: September 12, 2012 Andrew M. Ihrig, Esq., Oklahoma State University, for the protester. G. Lindsay Simmons, Esq., J. Eric Whytsell, Esq., and Katie Calogero, Esq., Jackson Kelly PLLC, for the intervenor. Jared D. Minsk, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of price evaluation is denied where the record indicates that the agency performed a reasonable analysis of offerors' prices. 2. Where agency conducted discussions with both protester and awardee, identifying specific flaws in each offeror's proposal, agency's discussion questions regarding particular flaws in awardee's proposal did not constitute preferential treatment. 3. Protest of alleged organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the protester has not identified any hard facts indicating the existence, or potential existence, of a conflict. DECISION Oklahoma State University (OSU), of Stillwater, Oklahoma, protests the award of a contract to Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA9200-1 1-R-0031, issued by the Department of the Air Force to produce joint munitions effectiveness manuals (JMEM) tools and related publications required by the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME).1 The protester challenges the agency's price evaluation, contends that 1 The JTCG/ME serves as the Department of Defense's focal point for munitions effectiveness information. Agency Report (AR) Tab 3, RFP at 70.

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