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B-411614,B-411614.2 1 (2015-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrnb0001 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Lowe Campbell Ewald File: B-411614; B-411614.2 Date: September 11, 2015 David T. Ralston, Jr., Esq., Frank S. Murray, Esq., Erin L. Toomey, Esq., and Jennifer M. Forde, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Elizabeth C. Billhimer, Esq., Leonard Rawicz, Esq., and Mitchell S. Ettinger, Esq., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, for Young & Rubicam, Inc., an intervenor. David H. Turner, Esq., Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of proposals and source selection decision is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation and source selection were reasonable, rational, and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Lowe Campbell Ewald (LCE), of Detroit, Michigan, protests the award of a contract to Young & Rubicam, Inc. (Y&R), of New York, New York, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 89-14-R-Z004, issued by the Department of the Navy for advertising and marketing services. LCE, the incumbent contractor for this requirement, maintains that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision.1 1 In its initial protest LCE also alleged that Y&R had an organizational conflict of interest (OCI), and that the agency unreasonably found Y&R responsible, notwithstanding an alleged violation of the Procurement Integrity Act by Y&R. LCE withdrew its OCI allegation, and our Office dismissed its allegation regarding the agency's allegedly improper affirmative responsibility determination of Y&R as speculative. GAO E-Mail to the Parties, June 25, 2015.

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