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B-410062,B-410062.2,B-410062.3 1 (2014-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqrr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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. Decision Matter of: Sigma Space Corporation File: B-410062; B-410062.2; B-410062.3 Date: October 16, 2014 James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly & Roberts PLLC, for the protester. Jerry A. Miles, Esq., Deale Services, LLC, for Science Systems and Applications, Inc., an intervenor. Alexander T. Bakos, Esq., Maria Harrington, Esq., and John H. Eckhardt, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that an offeror had improper contact with the source evaluation board chair during an ongoing procurement is denied where the record shows the offeror's contact consisted only of submitting a past performance questionnaire to the chair in his capacity as the contracting officer's representative on the offeror's prior contract. 2. Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of the awardee's past performance is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. DECISION Sigma Space Corporation (Sigma), of Lanham, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI), of Lanham, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNG13454034R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) for hydrospheric and biospheric sciences (HBS) support services. The protester alleges that prohibited contact between the agency and the awardee occurred during the procurement and that the agency misevaluated proposals. We deny the protest.

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