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B-411608,B-411608.3 1 (2015-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrmv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision ap proved for public release. Matter of: Tantus Technologies, Inc. File: B-411608; B-411608.3 Date: September 14, 2015 David S. Cohen, Esq., John J. O'Brien, Esq., Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Daniel Strouse, Esq., and Amy J. Spencer, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Neil H. O'Donnell, Esq., and Lucas T. Hanback, Esq., Rogers Joseph O'Donnell, for the intervenor, Edaptive Systems LLC. Douglas Kornreich, Esq., and Tony Ross, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Brent Burrs, Esq., and Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where the agency unreasonably failed to consider, under the personnel and management evaluation factor, the awardee's proposed relocation of a substantial number of employees after the first year of performance. 2. Protest is sustained where the agency did not evaluate corporate experience and past performance evaluation factor in a manner consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal under the technical approach and understanding factor is denied where the protester fails to demonstrate that the agency's interpretation of the protester's proposal was unreasonable. 4. Agency's cost realism evaluation is improper where agency failed to recognize that awardee proposed to significantly reduce the labor rates of personnel during the option years of the task order; however, agency was not required to downwardly adjust protester's proposed travel costs that were consistent with the protester's technical approach. DECISION Tantus Technologies, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Edaptive Systems LLC, of Owings Mills, Maryland, under request for

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