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B-413291 1 (2016-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsry0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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: Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. File: B-413291 Date: September 28, 2016 Lawrence P. Block, Esq., and Elizabeth G. Leavy, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for the protester. James H. Roberts, III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Kelly & Roberts PLLC, for Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, an intervenor. Ryan Carpenter, Esq., Kristen Zearfoss, Esq., and Kimberly Manganello, Esq., Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that proposal was improperly found unacceptable for failing to submit a mandatory performance work statement and deliverables schedule is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. (ATS), of Fairfax, Virginia, protests the issuance of a work order to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT), of Greenbelt, Maryland, under work order request (WOR) No. PBGC01 -RP-1 6-0010, issued by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), for business management application (BMA) suite support. ATS protests the evaluation of proposals and the source selection decision, primarily arguing that its proposal was improperly found to be unacceptable because it submitted a required performance work statement (PWS) as a table, rather than a narrative description. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND PBGC is a government-owned corporation established under Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to protect the defined benefit

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