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B-408575 1 (2013-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpwd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General !Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AXIS Management Group LLC File: B-408575 Date: November 13, 2013 Venkat Reddy, AXIS Management Group LLC, for the protester. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency's price evaluation was unreasonable is sustained where the solicitation gave offerors the discretion to propose a technical approach to satisfy the agency's requirements, and the agency improperly normalized labor hours and labor mix in its price evaluation, which had the effect of ignoring the protester's unique technical approach to satisfying the agency's requirements. 2. Protest that agency failed to raise significant weaknesses in protested proposal during discussions is denied where the record shows the concerns at issue were not significant weaknesses and need not have been raised. DECISION AXIS Management Group LLC, of McLean, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Cherokee Nations Technology Solutions, Inc., of Lakewood, Colorado, by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), under request for proposals (RFP) No. G12PS00932 for laboratory operational support at the agency's National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL). AXIS argues that the agency failed to conduct a rational price evaluation and failed to conduct meaningful discussions. We sustain the protest in part, and deny it in part.

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