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B-415254.2 1 (2017-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadudf0001 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: McKean Defense Group, LLC File: B-415254.2 Date: December 19, 2017 J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Beth V. McMahon, Esq., ReavesColey, PLLC, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for Gryphon Technologies, L.C., the intervenor. Ryan Banach, Esq., William A. Longwell, Esq., and Jeanne P. Ockerman, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency's cost realism analysis was unreasonable because the agency did not utilize an independent government cost estimate in its analysis is denied where the record shows that the cost evaluators relied on other cost analysis techniques permitted by the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the cost analysis was otherwise reasonable. 2. Protest that the best-value tradeoff decision was unreasonable and insufficiently documented is denied where the record shows that the tradeoff decision was reasonable and adequately documented, and where despite one apparent evaluation error, the protester could not show that it was prejudiced. DECISION McKean Defense Group, LLC, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to Gryphon Technologies, L.C., of Washington, District of Columbia, by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00024-16-R-3030 for engineering support services. McKean contends that the agency failed to conduct a reasonable cost realism analysis, performed a flawed best-value tradeoff determination, and failed to conduct a reasonable technical evaluation of proposals. We deny the protest.

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