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B-408959 1 (2014-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Ac;oMtabllty nfgilty I ReliIbikty 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: QMX Support Services, Inc File: B-408959 Date: January 6, 2014 Shelton H. Skolnick, Esq., Skolnick Law Firm, PC, for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., and Megan C. Connor, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for TechFlow, Inc., the intervenor. Sandra Cain, Esq., and Scott E. Miller, Esq., Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee engaged in an impermissible bait and switch of its key personnel is denied where there is no evidence that the awardee made a material misrepresentation in its proposal with respect to its key personnel. 2. Protest challenging agency's cost evaluation of awardee's proposal on basis that the awardee's total cost was substantially lower than agency's cost estimate and other offerors' total costs is denied where the agency's cost evaluation was based on a comprehensive review of the awardee's specific cost elements and the protester has not demonstrated that the agency's evaluation in this regard was unreasonable. DECISION QMX Support Services, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to TechFlow, Inc., of San Diego, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N66001-13-R-01 01, issued by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, for information technology and software engineering support services. QMX alleges that the awardee does not intend to use its proposed key personnel and has therefore engaged in an improper bait and

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