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B-412468.6 1 (2016-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadswh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General A Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Target Media Mid Atlantic, Inc. File: B-412468.6 Date: December 6, 2016 John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., Elizabeth Buehler, Esq., Jared Engelking, Esq., and Puja Satiani, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. John R. Tolle, Esq., and H. Todd Whay, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for Imagine One Technology & Management Ltd., the intervenor. Michelle S. Bennett, Esq., Greg Lennon, Esq., Rizlane Riahi, Esq., and Aleacia Chinkhota, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's cost evaluation is sustained where agency failed to evaluate the realism of the awardee's cost proposal in accordance with its proposed technical approach and failed to evaluate the awardee's professional employee compensation plan in accordance with the requirements of the solicitation. 2. Protest that awardee engaged in impermissible bait and switch is denied where the record contains no evidence that the awardee did not intend to staff the task order with the proposed key personnel. 3. Protest challenging agency's past performance evaluation is denied where agency reasonably took into consideration unfavorable past performance information regarding the awardee's proposed subcontractor. 4. Protest challenging the agency's technical evaluation is denied where agency reasonably evaluated the protester's proposal in accordance with the solicitation evaluation criteria. DECISION Target Media Mid Atlantic, Inc., a small business located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, challenges the issuance of a task order by the Department of the Navy to Imagine One Technology & Management Ltd., of Colonial Beach, Virginia,

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