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B-408846,B-408846.4 1 (2013-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpyc0001 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: Portfolio Management Solutions, LLC; Competitive Choice, Inc. File: B-408846; B-408846.4 Date: December 12, 2013 Terry Tomlinson for Portfolio Management Solutions, LLC, and Richard Young, for Competitive Choice, Inc., the protesters. Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, P.C., for Dawson Technical, LLC, the intervenor. William M. Lackermann, Jr., Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the realism of the awardee's proposed compensation plan is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably concluded that the awardee's proposed compensation plan was realistic for the work proposed based on comparisons to salaries paid by other contractors under comparable contracts. DECISION Portfolio Management Solutions, LLC; of Washington, D.C., and Competitive Choice, Inc., of Houston, Texas, protest the award of a contract to Dawson Technical, LLC, of Boerne, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA7014- 13-R-3007, issued by the Department of the Air Force, for advisory and support services for the Air Force District of Washington Procurement Directorate (AFDW/PK). Portfolio and Competitive both argue that the agency did not reasonably evaluate the realism of Dawson's proposed employee compensation plan. We deny the protest.' 1 Our Office did not issue a protective order in connection with this protest because neither Portfolio nor Competitive elected to retain counsel. A full version of the agency report was provided to our Office, while a redacted version of the report was (continued...)

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