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B-407168,B-407168.2 1 (2012-11-21)

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          G     A    O                                                   Comptroller General
Acc;tabit       Infegity ReiIbiIkty                                      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 approved for public release.
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           Matter of:   American Technical Services, Inc.

           File:        B-407168; B-407168.2

           Date:        November 21, 2012

           John A. Burkholder, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester.
           Samuel Frazer, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency.
           Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. Protest that the agency performed an unreasonable cost realism analysis is
           denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably relied on indirect cost
           rate data that was provided by the protester specifically for cost analysis purposes.

           2. Protest that the awardee's subcontractor had an unequal access to information
           organizational conflict of interest is denied where the allegations were not based on
           hard facts.
           DECISION

           American Technical Services, Inc. (ATS), of Glendale, California, protests the
           issuance of a task order to AdapTech Corporation, of Clifton, Virginia, under request
           for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-1 1 -R-3315, by the Department of the Navy for
           engineering support services.1 ATS objects to the agency's cost realism analysis
           and contends that the contractor selected for the task order has an unmitigated
           organizational conflict of interest.

           We deny the protest.


           1 Although the solicitation at issue here was captioned as an RFP, the Navy was in
           fact seeking task order proposals from small businesses holding SeaPort-e multiple
           award contracts in the Navy's Southwest Zone 6 region. RFP at 59. We will adopt
           the Navy's terminology throughout the decision.

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