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B-409570.2 1 (2014-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqkb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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. Decision Matter of: Acquisition Services Corporation File: B-409570.2 Date: June 18, 2014 Ira E. Hoffman, Esq., and Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Offit Kurman, P.A., for the protester. William A. Roberts, III, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and Stacie L. Gonsalves, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the intervenor. Kyle E. Chadwick, Esq., and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where the selection authority had a reasonable understanding of the proposal, and the evaluation findings were reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency failed to properly conduct a cost realism analysis is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated awardee's proposal and determined that an upward adjustment should be made to the probable cost, based on the possibility that certain cost saving efficiencies might not be realized, but that no downgrade of technical scores was necessary where the awardee's technical approach and labor mix were realistic. 3. A competitive advantage arising from the awardee's performance of a related task order did not give rise to an organizational conflict of interest where the advantage was attributable to the awardee's general knowledge of the agency's organization and every day operations, gained through its performance of the related task order, and did not result from preferential treatment or unfair action by the agency. DECISION Acquisition Services Corporation, LLC (ASC), of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the issuance of a task order to Quantech Services, Inc. (Quantech), also of Huntsville,

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