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B-414055 1 (2017-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtbv0001 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: Noblis, Inc. File: B-414055 Date: February 1, 2017 J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., KeirX. Bancroft, Esq., Miranda S. Riemer, Esq., and Michael T. Francel, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Peter J. Eyre, Esq., Mark A. Ries, Esq., and Robert Sneckenberg, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Vencore, Inc., the intervenor. Meaghan Q. LeClerc, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester was not misled or treated unequally by the agency where all offerors were provided the same information and were permitted to structure their proposals to best address the solicitation requirements based on their own business judgment. 2. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism calculations and methodology is denied where the agency's use of the standard deviation methodology was reasonable and any errors in the agency's calculation of the standard deviation did not prejudice the protester. 3. Protest challenging the agency's assessment of performance risk is denied where the solicitation advised all offerors that the results of the cost realism analysis could be used by the source selection authority to assess performance risk and the agency reasonably assessed performance risk based upon the agency's concern about the protester's low labor rates in a highly competitive labor market. 4. Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the agency's decision was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation's criteria. DECISION Noblis, Inc., of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the award of a contract to Vencore, Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal

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