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B-408624,B-408624.2 1 (2013-11-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpxq0001 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: SRA International, Inc. File: B-408624; B-408624.2 Date: November 25, 2013 Patricia H. Wittie, Esq., Karla J. Letsche, Esq., and Daniel J. Strouse, Esq., Wittie, Letsche & Waldo, LLP, for the protester. Alexander T. Bakos, Esq., and Maria Harrington, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's technical evaluation is sustained where (1) the record fails to demonstrate a reasonable basis for several of the agency's evaluation findings, and (2) the record fails to demonstrate that the agency assigned ratings in an even-handed manner. DECISION SRA International, Inc. (SRA), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the decision by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) not to award it a contract under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNH12360015R, for coaching and organizational development services. The protester argues that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and that its best value tradeoff decision was flawed. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, which was issued on June 29, 2012, contemplated the award of two or more indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts with fixed-price/time and materials task orders for a 5-year period of performance. The solicitation provided for award to the offerors whose proposals represented the best value to the government based on the following three factors in descending order of importance: technical merit, price, and past performance.

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