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B-414931.2,B-414931.3 1 (2017-12-20)

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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            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:   BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, Inc.

File:        B-414931.2; B-414931.3

Date:        December 20, 2017

Michael R. Charness, Esq., Jamie F. Tabb, Esq., Elizabeth Krabill McIntyre, Esq., Ryan
D. Stalnaker, Esq., and Tyler E. Robinson, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, and Catherine K.
Ronis, Esq., BAE Systems, Inc., for the protester.
Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Elizabeth A. Ferrell, Esq., and James M. Larkin, Esq., Larkin
Ferrell LLP, for CACI Technologies, Inc., the intervenor.
Major Christopher M. Coy, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging agency's evaluation of proposals is sustained where record shows
that agency's evaluation of awardee's proposed personnel was not consistent with the
terms of the solicitation.
DECISION

BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests
the issuance of a task order to CACI Technologies Inc., of Chantilly, Virginia, under
request for task order proposals (RTOP) No. W91 1W4-16-R-0028, issued by the
Department of the Army for intelligence support services in Afghanistan. The protester
challenges the agency's evaluation of proposals.

We sustain the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RTOP sought proposals for the issuance of a fixed-price, level of effort and cost-
type task order to the firm that represented the best value to the government,
considering two factors--technical and price--with the technical factor significantly more
important than price. Agency Report (AR), Tab 10, RTOP, at 47. The technical factor
contained the following three subfactors, in descending order of importance: staffing

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