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B-412949,B-412949.2 1 (2016-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsuo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office W a s h in g to n , D C 2 0 5 4 8------------------------------------------------------------ DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approvedforpublic release. Matter of: Vencore Services and Solutions, Inc. File: B-412949; B-412949.2 Date: July 18, 2016 J. Alex Ward, Esq., Ethan E. Marsh, Esq., and Charles L. Capito, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Tara L. Ward, Esq., and Cara L. Lasley, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., the intervenor. Kimberly L. Cohen, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the agency engaged in misleading discussions by relying on a significantly inflated estimate of the likely cost of performance to advise the protester that its labor rates were too low, the protester raised its rates in response, and the agency subsequently revised its flawed cost estimate but did not reopen discussions. DECISION Vencore Services and Solutions, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSBP1 01 5R0039, which was issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), under the multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity enterprise acquisition gateway for leading edge solutions (EAGLE II) contract, to obtain business intelligence support services (BISS) for U.S. border protection efforts. The protester alleges that the agency conducted misleading discussions with regard to its costs, and that the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical proposal was flawed. We sustain the protest.

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