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B-408316,B-408316.2 1 (2013-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadptg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: FCN, Inc. File: B-408316; B-408316.2 Date: August 19, 2013 William T. Welch, Esq., McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, for the protester. Clayton S. Marsh, Esq., for RGS Federal, Inc., the intervenor. Kyle E. Chadwick, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 Under solicitation contemplating the award of a fixed-price contract, protest challenging agency's price realism analysis is denied where the contracting officer reasonably evaluated the awardee's lower price. DECISION FCN, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to RGS Federal, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, by the Air National Guard (ANG), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9133L-1 3-R-001 5, for a mass notification system/net-centric alerting system for the ANG. The protester argues that the agency's price realism evaluation of the awardee's low price was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on February 13, 2013, for the purposes of obtaining a mass notification system. The RFP anticipated the award of a fixed-price contract for a 1-year base period with two 1-year option periods for sustainment support of the system. The RFP provided for award on a best-value basis, considering three non-price evaluation factors as well as price. The non-price evaluation factors were mission capability, past performance, and small business participation. According to the RFP, the mission capability factor was more important than the past performance factor and significantly more important than the small business participation factor; the past performance factor was more important than the small

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