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B-417026,B-417026.2,B-417026.3,B-417026.4 1 (2019-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvoi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: OGSystems, LLC File: B-417026; B-417026.2; B-417026.3; B-417026.4 Date: January 22, 2019 Cameron Hamrick, Esq., C. Peter Dungan, Esq., Jason A. Blindauer, Esq., and Christopher S. Denny, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge P.C., for the protester. Peter B. Ford, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., Timothy F. Valley, Esq., and Meghan F. Leemon, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Higgins, Hermansen, Banikas, LLC, the intervenor. Kenneth W. Sachs, Esq., National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's technical proposal is sustained where the agency did not adequately document its basis for concluding that the risks assigned to the awardee's proposal were resolved and where the record does not support other aspects of the evaluation. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee's proposal took exception to the requirement to propose a fixed price is denied where the assumptions set forth in the awardee's price proposal do not improperly condition its commitment to perform at a fixed price. 3. Protest that the awardee engaged in an improper bait and switch scheme is denied where the record does not show that the awardee misrepresented its intention to provide personnel identified in its proposal. 4. Protest challenging agency's the tradeoff decision is sustained where the agency did not adequately explain why it concluded that the awardee's lower-rated proposal would be able to provide the same level of benefits as the protester's higher-rated proposal. DECISION OGSystems, LLC (OGS), of Chantilly, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Higgins, Hermansen, Banikas, LLC (HHB), of Springfield, Virginia, by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), under fair opportunity proposal request (FOPR)

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