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B-409941,B-409941.2 1 (2014-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqqs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: The Boeing Company File: B-409941; B-409941.2 Date: September 18, 2014 Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., and Craig Smith, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, and Mark W. Reardon, Esq., and Padriac B. Fennelly, Esq., The Boeing Company, for the protester. Thomas P. Humphrey, Esq., John E. McCarthy Jr., Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., Robert Sneckenberg, Esq., and Skye Mathieson, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Harris Corporation, the intervenor. Jeffrey L. Augustin, Esq. and Mason C. Alinger, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency's cost realism adjustment is denied where protester's proposal failed to provide sufficient detail to substantiate a productivity claim in its proposal, and agency evaluators relied on their personal experience with the subject matter to determine that protester's unsupported claim was unrealistic. 2. Protest that agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions is denied where the specific flaw in the protester's proposal that resulted in a weakness was not reasonably apparent until the final proposal revision and, in any case, the agency's discussions led the protester into the general area of its proposal requiring revision. DECISION The Boeing Company, Intelligence Systems Group, of Springfield, Virginia, protests the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) award of a contract to Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HM1574-13-R-0003, for foundation geospatial intelligence content management services. Boeing challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals and contends that the agency conducted misleading discussions. We deny the protest.

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