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B-405658.2 1 (2011-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadokx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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: Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc File: B-405658; B-405658.2 Date: December 9, 2011 Ruth E. Ganister, Esq., Rosenthal and Ganister LLC; Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq., and Stephen S. Kaye, Esq., Bryan Cave, LLP, and Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and Jon W. Burd, Esq., Wiley Rein, LLP, for the protester. Thomas C. Papson, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., Luke W. Meier, Esq., and John W. Sorrenti, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for Rockwell Collins, Inc., an intervenor. Wilbert T. Jones, Esq., United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency evaluation of awardee's technical proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency evaluated the technical proposal in accordance with the stated evaluation factors. 2. Protest that agency conducted inadequate discussions with protester regarding low labor hours is denied where agency informed protester that its proposal was incomplete in this regard, and agency was unable to meaningfully evaluate the proposed labor hours until receiving protester's final revised proposal. 3. Protest of agency evaluation of awardee's price proposal is denied for lack of prejudice where the protester does not establish that, but for the allegedly improper aspect of the agency's evaluation, protester would have had a reasonable chance of receiving the award. DECISION Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (ISS), of Exton, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to Rockwell Collins, Inc. (RC), of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, under request for

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