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B-416013,B-416013.2 1 (2018-05-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduuk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.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: Dynamic Security Concepts, Inc. File: B-416013; B-416013.2 Date: May 15, 2018 Ryan C. Berry, Esq., and Ryan C. Bradel, Esq., Ward & Berry PLLC, for the protester. Paul A. Debolt, Esq., Chelsea B. Knudson, Esq., and Spencer P. Williams, Esq., Venable LLP, for TestPros, Inc., the intervenor. Melanie T. Dasher, Esq., and Melissa K. Erny, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest asserting that the awardee intended to perform an improper bait and switch is dismissed where the protester fails to allege baiting, that is, replacing proposed personnel with less qualified employees. 3. Protest that agency failed to reasonably evaluate proposed prices for realism and unbalanced pricing is denied where the price evaluations were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 4. In a Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 16.5 task order competition, protest alleging that the agency improperly conducted discussions with only the awardee is denied where, even if the exchange constituted discussions, the protester has not shown that it was prejudiced by the agency's action. 5. Protest that agency failed to properly perform a best-value tradeoff is denied where the agency's source selection decision compared the offerors' strengths and weaknesses and concluded that the protester's higher-rated proposal was not worth its higher price.

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