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B-410695.3,B-410695.4 1 (2016-04-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsgp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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: Priority One Services, Inc. File: B-410695.3; B-410695.4 Date: April 6, 2016 Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., Wojciech Z. Kornacki, Esq., and Marina Burton Blickley, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for the protester. Erin V. Podolny, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, National Library of Medicine, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's conduct of discussions, technical evaluation, cost realism analysis, and best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency's actions were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Priority One Services, Inc. (Priority One), of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Charles River Laboratories, Inc. (CRL), of Wilmington, Massachusetts, by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Library of Medicine under request for proposals (RFP) No. NIH-LM2014115 for operation and maintenance of the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) in Alamogordo, New Mexico. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The APF houses 160 chimpanzees that were previously used as medical research subjects and infected with viruses, such as Hepatitis C and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in experiments funded by the Public Health Service. Supp. Agency Report (SAR), Tab 3D, Statement of Work (SOW), at 1; Tab 3H, Memorandum of Understanding, at 2.

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