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B-415081.2,B-415081.3 1 (2018-05-08)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States

                                                DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                            I 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: ARES Technical Services Corporation

File:     B-415081.2; B-415081.3

Date:       May 8, 2018

Daniel R. Forman, Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., and Hart W. Wood, Esq., Crowell &
Moring LLP, for the protester.
Paul F. McQuade, Esq., Michael J. Schaengold, Esq., Danielle K. Muenzfeld, Esq., and
Melissa P. Prusock, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for Millennium Engineering and
Integration Company, an intervenor.
Ken M. Kanzawa, Esq., Victoria H. Kauffman, Esq., Amber M. Hufft, Esq., and Jessica
A. Deihl, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 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 proposals is sustained where record shows
that agency's evaluation failed to take several material considerations into account in
arriving at its source selection decision.
DECISION

ARES Technical Services Corporation, of Greenbelt, Maryland, protests the award of a
contract to Millennium Engineering and Integration Company (MEI) of Arlington,
Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNG16547352R, issued by the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for safety and mission assurance
services to be performed at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center.' ARES argues
that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection
decision. ARES also alleges that MEI has an organizational conflict of interest (OCI)
that the agency has inadequately addressed.


1 The contract to be awarded under the current solicitation is called the safety and
mission assurance services contract, which is a follow-on to a previous contract for
these same services; throughout the record, the protested contract is referred to by the
parties as the SMAS II contract.

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