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B-410702,B-410702.4 1 (2015-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqyk0001 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 Decision dfor release. Matter of: Portage, Inc. File: B-410702; B-410702.4 Date: January 26, 2015 Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., and Tammy Hopkins, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the protester. Richard P. Rector, Esq., C. Bradford Jorgensen, Esq., and Daniel J. Cook, Esq., DLA Piper LLP (US), for Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., an intervenor. Michael W. Ling, Esq., and JiSan A. Lopez, Esq., Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's technical and past performance evaluations is denied where record shows that the evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) is denied, where record shows that agency thoroughly investigated potential OCIs and, after completing its investigation and concluding that there was a limited possibility of an OCI, reasonably concluded that the OCI would be avoided by the careful assignment of work under the contract. 3. Cost/technical tradeoff was proper where source selection authority reasonably identified relevant technical distinctions between offerors' competing proposals and adequately documented her conclusion that the higher technically-rated, higher cost proposal represented the best value to the government. DECISION Portage, Inc., of Idaho Falls, Idaho, protests the award of a contract to Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-0005982, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for environmental program

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