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B-412047,B-412047.2,B-412047.3 1 (2015-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrte0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I 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: CORTEK, Inc. File: B-412047; B-412047.2; B-412047.3 Date: December 17, 2015 Richard B. O'Keeffe, Jr., Esq., and William A. Roberts, III, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Tammy Hopkins, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for Engineering Support Personnel, Inc., an intervenor. Suzanne M. Steffen, Esq., Department of the Navy, 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 awardee's proposal is sustained where record shows that awardee's proposal failed to comply with several material solicitation requirements. DECISION CORTEK, Inc., of Fredericksburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Engineering Support Personnel, Inc. (ESP), of Orlando, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N001 89-15-R-ZO1 6, issued by the Department of the Navy for various instructor services to be performed at the Navy's Air Logistics Training Center in Fort Worth, Texas. CORTEK maintains that the agency misevaluated proposals, treated offerors disparately, failed to engage in meaningful discussions, and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplates the award, on a best-value basis, of a fixed-price contract for a base year and four 1-year option periods to provide training for pilots, flight engineers, maintenance personnel and aircrews, along with training for operations and administration personnel, in connection with the operation and maintenance of the agency's C-1 30T and C-9B fleet of aircraft. RFP at 36. Proposals were to be

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