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B-404998 1 (2011-07-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadojb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General countabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DocuMENTFOR-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. D e c i s i o n -.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... Matter of: Raytheon Company File: B-404998 Date: July 25, 2011 Mark D. Colley, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Dominique L. Casimir, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., and Michael J. Anstett, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Science Applications International Corporation; Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., Computer Sciences Corporation; and Karen R. Harbaugh, Esq., and Robert E. Gregg, Esq., Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP, for Pragmatics, Inc., the intervenors. Lisa J. Obayashi, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where discussions were conducted, but the protester was not provided with an opportunity to address the significant weaknesses identified in its proposal, even though one of the awardees had been provided the opportunity to revise its technical proposal in a significant way. 2. Protest is sustained where the agency assessed a weakness under the experience factor (which required the submission of five references) whenever an offeror's reference did not have one of six areas of the experience required by the solicitation, even though the solicitation only required that offerors' references collectively demonstrate experience in the required areas. 3. Protest challenging agency's use of adjectival ratings is denied where the ratings were consistent with the evaluation factor weights set forth in the solicitation. DECISION Raytheon Company, of Dulles, Virginia, protests the decision of the Department of Commerce, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) not to award Raytheon one of the multiple contracts awarded under request for proposals (RFP) No. DOC52PAPT1000015, for software development and integration services.

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