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B-414746.2 1 (2018-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadunq0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Matter of: Grove Resource Solutions, Inc. approved for public release. File: B-414746.2 Date: April 4, 2018 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and Todd M. Garland, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Scott F. Lane, Esq., and Jayna M. Rust, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for Vickers & Nolan Enterprises, LLC, the intervenor. Mark S. Christopher, Esq., and David D. Perrone, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's acceptance of revisions to the awardee's proposal, which removed a subcontractor from the awardee's cost/price proposal, is denied where the agency did not limit the scope of final proposal revisions. 2. Protest alleging that agency failed to evaluate the technical risks resulting from the awardee's final proposal revision, which removed a proposed subcontractor, is denied where the solicitation did not call for the evaluation of offerors' technical approaches, and where the hours proposed for that subcontractor did not exceed the threshold provided in the solicitation for the evaluation of subcontractor corporate experience. 3. Protest challenging the agency's failure to consider protester's incumbent corporate experience is denied where the protester did not include such information in its proposal. DECISION Grove Resource Solutions, Inc. (GRSi), a small business located in Frederick, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Vickers & Nolan Enterprises, LLC (VNE), a small business located in Stafford, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N65236-17-R-3067, issued by the Department of the Navy for intelligence support services for the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The protester argues that the agency impermissibly permitted VNE to change the composition of its proposed team

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