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B-407297,B-407297.2 1 (2012-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpet0001 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: ERC Inc. File: B-407297; B-407297.2 Date: November 19, 2012 Robert J. Symon, Esq., Lewis P. Rhodes, Esq., and Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. James H. Roberts, III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly & Roberts PLLC, for Barrios Technology, Ltd., an intervenor. Alexander T. Bakos, Esq., and Bernard J. Roan, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that source selection authority's (SSA) selection decision was improper is denied where the record shows the SSA conducted an extensive examination of the qualitative merits of proposals in finding them essentially equal under two evaluation factors, and reasonably relied on a key discriminator under the third evaluation factor to make the selection decision. DECISION ERC, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract to Barrios Technology, Ltd., of Houston, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNJ1 1401774R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to obtain mission and program integration services for the International Space Station Program. ERC challenges the source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The International Space Station (ISS) Program is a cooperative international program formed to build, operate, and utilize a permanently human-tended space station in low Earth orbit. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1.1. The ISS hosts an average of 14 visiting vehicles per year involving various types of

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