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B-413421,B-413421.3,B-413421.5,B-413421.6 1 (2016-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadssu0001 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 Decision been ap_proved _fo r public release. Matter of: Abacus Technology Corporation; SMS Data Products Group, Inc. File: B-413421 ; B-413421.3; B-413421.5; B-413421.6 Date: October 28, 2016 C. Joel Van Over, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Abacus Technology Corporation; John McNichols, Esq., C. Bryan Wilson, Esq., and Andrew McBride, Esq., Williams & Connolly LLP, for SMS Data Products Group, Inc., the protesters. Jerald S. Howe, Jr., Esq., James J. McCullough, Esq., Aaron T. Tucker, Esq., and Webster M. Beary, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Technica Corporation, the intervenor. Kevin P. Stiens, Esq., and Heather M. Mandelkehr, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protests of evaluation of offerors' proposals with respect to staffing are denied where evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation; agency findings related to staffing approach, key personnel, and security clearance distribution were supported by the record. 2. Protests alleging misleading discussions and objecting to agency's decision not to seek clarifications are denied where discussions were fair and meaningful and agency was under no obligation to seek clarifications. 3. Protest of evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where awardee's decision to propose optional personnel was not contrary to the solicitation and evaluation was otherwise unobjectionable. DECISION Abacus Technology Corporation, a small business of Chevy Chase, Maryland, and SMS Data Products Group, Inc., a small business of McLean, Virginia, protest the issuance of a task order to Technica Corporation, a small business of Dulles,

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