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B-409681.3,B-409681.4 1 (2015-10-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrpd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office D~OCUMENT 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 I been approved for public release. Matter of: McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy, LLP File: B-409681.3; B-409681.4 Date: October 21, 2015 G. Lindsay Simmons, Esq., J. Eric Whytsell, Esq., Hopewell H. Darneille, Esq., and Lara Nochomovitz, Esq., Jackson Kelly PLLC, for the protester. Patricia H. Wittie, Esq., Wittie Law, PLLC, for Alternate Perspectives, Inc., an intervenor. David R. Koeppel, Esq., Dennis A. Adelson, Esq., and Savannah L. Wilson, Esq., Department of Labor, 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 that the agency engaged in misleading discussions that led the protester to increase its cost is denied where the protester's contention is not supported by the record, and where the protester made its own independent business judgment to adjust its proposed cost. 2. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. 3. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of past performance is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria, and the protester failed to demonstrate that it was prejudiced by any alleged error. 4. Protest that agency failed to give adequate consideration to awardee's potential organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) is denied, where the protester's assertions fail to present hard facts indicating the existence of a conflict. DECISION McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy, LLP (MJLM), of Houston, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Alternate Perspectives, Inc. (API), of Leesburg, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DOL12QA20003, issued by the U.S.

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