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B-411742.4 1 (2016-02-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Trandes Corporation File: B-411742.4 Date: February 22, 2016 John J. O'Brien, Esq., Gabriel E. Kennon, Esq., Laurel A. Hockey, Esq., Daniel Strouse, Esq., and Charles R. Marvin, Jr., Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Nick Petts, Esq., and Christopher Re, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., an intervenor. Keli Norris, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that an agency unreasonably excluded protester from meaningfully competing when it amended a solicitation (in response to a prior protest) and limited ensuing discussions and proposal revisions to the discrete areas of proposals that the amendment addressed is denied where the agency shows that the amendment could not reasonably have an effect on other aspects of the proposals. 2. Protest that an amendment relaxing solicitation requirements does not reflect the agency's actual needs is denied where the agency provided a reasonable basis for its revised solicitation terms. 3. Protest that limited proposal revisions will result in award based on stale pricing is denied where the offerors have confirmed their pricing well past our decision date, and any challenge to a potential failure to update the cost realism analysis is premature. DECISION Trandes Corporation, of Lanham, Maryland, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-13-R-3184, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, for field engineering services in support of the Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility (FACSFAC), comprised of

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