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B-406683,B-406683.2 1 (2012-08-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoyj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General _,,7 Accountabfilty * 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. D e c is io n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Serco, Inc. File: B-406683; B-406683.2 Date: August 3, 2012 Richard J. Webber, Esq., Judith B. Kassel, Esq., and Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for the protester. Anne B. Perry, Esq., Jonathan s. Aronie, Esq., Ryan E. Roberts, Esq., and Cheryl A. Palmeri, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the intervenor. Beth Sturgess, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably attributed past performance and experience of affiliated entities to awardee where proposal demonstrated a significant nexus to the affiliates, including a statement that the parent company had declared the program a top corporate priority and indications that the awardee would rely on the personnel and managerial resources of its affiliated entities in performance of the contract. 2. Protest that agency should have rejected awardee's proposal for offering unbalanced prices is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the pricing did not pose unacceptable risk to the government. DECISION Serco, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to U.S. Investigations Services, Professional Services Division (USIS, PSD), of Falls Church, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSSCCG-1 1 -R-0001 0 issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to obtain Application Support Center operations and facilities services at multiple sites. Serco primarily challenges the agency's evaluation of USIS, PSD's technical and price proposals. We deny the protest.

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