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B-407766.5 1 (2013-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadplm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Aca ntabityi i 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: Threat Management Group File: B-407766.5 Date: March 28, 2013 J. Alex Ward, Esq., and Charles L. Capito, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester. Col. Barbara E. Shestko, Christine C. Piper, Esq., and Capt. Joel B. Lofgren, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Tania Calhoun, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Request for recommendation that protest costs be reimbursed is dismissed in part and denied in part where agency does not object to such reimbursement as to one protest ground, and where remaining grounds of protest are clearly severable from that ground and not clearly meritorious. DECISION Threat Management Group (TMG), of Ladson, South Carolina, requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the Department of the Air Force's award of a contract to R3 Strategic Support Group, Inc. (R3), of Coronado, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4452-12-R-0003, for explosive ordnance disposal support services. We dismiss the request in part and deny it in part. The solicitation, issued on May 31, 2012, anticipated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract based on an evaluation of the offerors' technical proposals, pricing, and past and present performance history. Award was to be made to the proposal that represented the best value to the government, with past and present performance history to be considered significantly more important than price. The solicitation explained that the evaluation process would begin with a pass/fail technical evaluation of proposals under three subfactors: (1) project plan; (2) quality control plan; and (3) staffing plan. Then, starting with the

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