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B-408678.5,B-408678.6,B-408678.7 1 (2014-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: URS Federal Services, Inc.; ManTech Telecommunications and Information Systems Corporation File: B-408678.5; B-408678.6; B-408678.7 Date: June 20, 2014 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Harold D. Lester, Jr., Esq., Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., Kyle E. Gilbertson, Esq., and Kirsten W. Konar, Esq., Vedder Price, PC, for URS Federal Services, Inc.; and Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Trayce Winfrey Howard, Esq., and Tara L. Ward, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for ManTech Telecommunications and Information Systems Corporation, the protesters. Gregory S. Jacobs, Esq., Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Joelle E. K. Laszlo, Esq., and Erin L. Felix, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for DynCorp International, LLC, an intervenor. Tudo N. Pham, Esq., and John Cox, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging lack of meaningful discussions is denied where vendor introduced significantly higher discounts to its Federal Supply Schedule contract in its final proposal revision, leading the agency to assign a major risk; agencies are not required to reopen discussions to afford an offeror an additional opportunity to revise its proposal where a weakness or deficiency is first introduced in the firm's revised proposal. 2. Evaluations of vendors' proposals under the staffing and key personnel factor were unobjectionable where agency reasonably assigned a minor weakness to one protester's proposal for introducing lesser qualified labor categories in final revised proposal, and assigned a significant weakness to other protester's proposal where staffing in the technical proposal was not reflected in the price proposal, in violation of solicitation requirements. 3. Evaluation of vendor's proposal under the efficiency and innovations factor was unobjectionable where protester's final proposal revision failed to adequately explain how one of its proposed innovations would result in promised savings.

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