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B-415175,B-415175.2,B-415175.3,B-415175.4 1 (2017-12-06)

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G     A     O      U.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. The entire decision has now
                                                 been approved for public release.

Matter of: AbacusSecure, LLC

File:     B-415175; B-415175.2; B-415175.3; B-415175.4

Date:     December 6, 2017

C. Joel Van Over, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and
Mary E. Buxton, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester.
Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., Olivia L. Lynch, Esq., Hart W. Wood, Esq., and
Sara A. Helmers, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for ASRC Federal Data Solutions, LLC,
the intervenor.
Victoria H. Kauffman, Esq., Ken M. Kanzawa, Esq., Steven G. Horn, Esq., and
Adhana M. Davis, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Agency reasonably considered the potential for organizational conflicts of interest
related to the awardee's proposal.

2. Agency reasonably determined that neither protester's nor awardee's price was
unrealistically low.

3. In evaluating the joint venture protester's past performance, agency reasonably
considered the individual past performance of each team member in the context of the
work that each team member was proposed to perform under the competed contract.
DECISION

AbacusSecure, LLC,1 of Reston, Virginia, protests the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) award of a contract to ASRC Federal Data Solutions, LLC
(AFDS), of Beltsville, Maryland, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP)


1 AbacusSecure states that it is a mentor-prot6g6 joint venture comprised of the
incumbent contractor, Abacus Technology Corporation (mentor), and Sure Secure
Solutions (prot6g6). Protest, Aug. 28, 2017, at 4.

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