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B-409072,B-409072.2 1 (2014-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqak0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability OfficeDOUETFRPBIRLAS 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 Decsio been approved for public release. OD e cc sios i-o-n-....-b--e--n---a-p-p--r--°--ve--d-----r--P---u--b---ic----e----a-s---e---............................................. Matter of: Alamo City Engineering Services, Inc. File: B-409072; B-409072.2 Date: January 16, 2014 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Harold D. Lester, Jr., Esq., Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Vedder Price PC, for the protester. E. Sanderson Hoe, Esq., and J. Hunter Bennet, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the intervenor. Michael Kraycinovich, Esq., Scott Johnson, Esq., Deparment of the Army, for the agency. Christopher L. Krafchek, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the agency failed to conduct a price realism analysis in a fixed-price procurement is denied where the solicitation did not provide for a price realism analysis. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee engaged in an improper bait and switch scheme regarding its proposed personnel is denied where the record does not demonstrate that the awardee knowingly or negligently represented that it would rely on specific personnel that it did not reasonably expect to furnish during contract performance. 3. Protest that agency unreasonably failed to consider awardee's low price in finding the awardee responsible is denied where record does not show that the agency unreasonably ignored relevant available information. DECISION Alamo City Engineering Services, Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, protests award of a task order to Mission 1st Group, Inc., of Princeton, New Jersey, by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, under Request for Quotations (RFQ) No. W52P1J-13-T-0022, for information technology professional services. Alamo primarily argues that the Army failed to evaluate the realism of the vendors' proposed prices, conducted a flawed technical evaluation, and unreasonably

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