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B-415923 1 (2018-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadukx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Yang Enterprises, Inc. File: B-415923 Date: March 12, 2018 Walter A.l. Wilson, Esq., Daniel A. Donohue, Esq., Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., and Abbi M. Jankowski, Esq., Polsinelli PC, for the protester. Kevin P. Mullin, Esq., Ethan E. Marsh, Esq., and James A. Tucker, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for ASRC Communications, Ltd., an intervenor. Jason R. Smith, Esq., and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's evaluation of awardee's proposal is dismissed as abandoned where protester, after receipt of the agency report, fails to provide a substantive response to the agency's detailed explanation of its actions. DECISION Yang Enterprises, Inc., of Oviedo, Florida, protests the award of a contract to ASRC Communications, Ltd., of Beltsville, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA2521-17-R-0001, issued by the Department of the Air Force for launch operations and infrastructure support services at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Yang argues that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We dismiss the protest. The RFP contemplates the award of a hybrid contract that includes both fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contract line item numbers (CLINs). RFP at 92. Firms were advised that the agency would evaluate the cost-reimbursement CLINS using a cost realism evaluation. Id. at 192. In its initial protest, Yang argued that the agency erred in failing to perform an adequate cost realism evaluation of the ASRC proposal. The agency provided our Office and the other parties a detailed agency report responding to Yang's protest. Specifically, the agency argued both that the protest was procedurally inadequate (because, according to the agency, Yang is not an interested party to

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