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B-406142.3 1 (2012-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpqz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabiity , Integrity Reiiabihtty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Phoenix Management, Inc. File: B-406142.3 Date: May 17, 2012 Joan Kelley Fowler Gluys, Esq., John C. Dulske, Esq., and Bryan L. Kost, Esq., Dulske & Gluys, P.C., for the protester. Michael J. Gardner, Esq., George G. Booker, Jr., Esq., and Shomari B. Wade, Esq., Troutman Sanders, LLP, for Alliance Technical Serivces, Inc., the intervenor. Marvin K. Gibbs, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the awardee, in preparing its proposal, violated the Procurement Integrity Act and made material misrepresentations, and that an award to the awardee was precluded by an impermissible organizational conflict of interest, is denied, where as part of earlier corrective action in response to a prior protest, the agency investigated the protester's allegations and reasonably found them to be unsupported by the record. 2. Protester's argument that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposed price was flawed because the agency did not evaluate the awardee's price for realism or verify that the awardee would comply with the Service Contract Act (SCA) is without merit where the solicitation did not provide for a price realism analysis or for verification of SCA compliance. DECISION Phoenix Management, Inc., Austin, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Alliance Technical Services, Inc. (ATS), Norfolk, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA4610-09-R-001 3, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for launch support services at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Phoenix argues that ATS materially misrepresented in its proposal that certain personnel would be available for contract performance. Phoenix also argues that ATS violated the Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) in preparing its proposal, and that

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