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B-415810.4,B-415810.5,B-415810.6,B-415810.7,B-415810.8 1 (2018-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvdo0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date belowwassubjectto Decision a GAO Protective Order. Thisredacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: BTAS, Inc.; Innovative Technologies, Inc. File: B-415810.4; B-415810.5; B-415810.6; B-415810.7; B-415810.8 Date: October 3, 2018 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., and Todd M. Garland, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for BTAS, Inc.; and Robert G. Hanseman, Esq., Sebaly Shillito & Dyer, for Innovative Technologies, Inc., the protesters. J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Kayleigh M. Scalzo, Esq., Tyler Evans, Esq., and Evan R. Sherwood, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Oasis Systems, LLC, the intervenor. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Damund E. Williams, Thomas J. Faulconer, Esq., and Sean B. Brady, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably eliminated protester from consideration for award where its cost proposal failed to conform to material terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest of agency's cost realism analysis and adjustment to the protester's proposed costs is denied where the record shows that the cost evaluation and source selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION BTAS, Inc., of Beavercreek, Ohio, and Innovative Technologies, Inc. (ITC) of Dayton, Ohio, protest the issuance of a task order to Oasis Systems, LLC, of Lexington, Massachusetts, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 38, issued by the Department of the Air Force for engineering, professional, and administrative support services (EPASS). The protesters challenge the agency's cost evaluations. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND The Air Force issued the RFP on March 3, 2017, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to vendors holding indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity

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