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B-403043.2,B-403043.3 1 (2010-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbnt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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: Earth Resources Technology, Inc. File: B-403043.2; B-403043.3 Date: October 18, 2010 James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly PLLC, for the protester. Mark D. Colley, Esq., Dominique L. Castro, Esq., and Avi M. Baldinger, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc., the intervenor. Victoria H. Kauffman, Esq., Daniel C. Hymer, Esq., and James A. Vatne, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated offerors' technical proposals and performed an unreasonable cost evaluation is denied where record demonstrates that the technical evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation, and any errors in the cost evaluation did not result in competitive prejudice. DECISION Earth Resources Technology, Inc. (ERT), of Annapolis Junction, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc., of Pasadena, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNG09276134R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center, for software engineering support services. ERT challenges various aspects of the agency's award decision. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND NASA issued the RFP on August 7, 2009 as a competitive section 8(a) small business set-aside in order to obtain software engineering support services for the design, development, test and deployment of software, data and information systems that support NASA's aerospace missions. The selected contractor will be required to provide support for the development and test laboratories, test facilities, and technical operations of Goddard's Software Engineering Division. RFP at BATES

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