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B-415376 1 (2017-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduaw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Arctic Slope Mission Services, LLC File: B-415376 Date: December 1,2017 Robert J. Symon, Esq., Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Lisa A. Markman, Esq., and Sarah S. Osborne, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Michael I. Mark, Esq., and D. Evelyn Lyon, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space 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 Protest challenging agency's evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester modified the solicitation's pre-populated labor categories without providing supporting rationale as required by the solicitation. DECISION Arctic Slope Mission Services, LLC, an 8(a) small business concern located in Beltsville, Maryland, protests the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) rejection of its proposal pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. NNL1 7ZB1 002R for administrative, media, and professional support services at Langley Research Center. The protester argues that the agency's decision to eliminate Arctic Slope's proposal from the competition was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 14, 2017, NASA issued the solicitation as an 8(a) small business set-aside under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15. RFP1 at 1, 56. 1 All citations to the solicitation herein are to the conformed copy issued on August 1, 2017, as amendment No. 1. RFP amend. No. 1.

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