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B-410570.6,B-410570.7 1 (2015-07-22)

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         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                                  [been000 aroved for pic release.



         Matter of:   Research Analysis & Maintenance, Inc.

         File:        B-410570.6; B-410570.7

         Date:        July 22, 2015

         Theodore P. Watson, Esq., and Nicole L. Carter, Esq., Watson & Associates, LLC,
         for the protester.
         Amy L. O'Sullivan, Esq., David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., and
         Jason M. Crawford, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Combined Technical Services,
         LLC, the intervenor.
         Major Travis P. Sommer, Captain Lyn P. Juarez, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq.,
         Department of the Army, for the agency.
         Evan D. Wesser, Esq., Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of
         the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         1. Protest challenging the agency's implementation of corrective action taken in
         response to an earlier protest is denied where the corrective action taken by the
         agency was consistent with its previously proposed corrective action.

         2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal
         is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the
         terms of the solicitation.

         3. Protest alleging that the agency did not engage in meaningful discussions by
         failing to reopen discussions to address a significant weakness in the protester's
         proposal is denied where the information giving rise to the evaluated weakness was
         first introduced in the protester's revised proposal following discussions.

         4. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation of the protester's
         cost/price proposal is denied where the protester has failed to demonstrate that the
         evaluation was unreasonable or prejudicial.
         DECISION

         Research Analysis and Maintenance, Inc. (RAM), of El Paso, Texas, protests the
         award of a contract to Combined Technical Services, LLC (CTS), of Albuquerque,

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