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B-415081.5 1 (2019-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeafc0001 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 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-415081.5 Date: November 4, 2019 Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and James G. Peyster, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Paul F. McQuade, Esq., Michael J. Schaengold, Esq., Danielle K. Muenzfeld, Esq., and Daniel D. Straus, Esq., Greenberg Traurig LLP, for Millennium Engineering and Integration company, an intervenor. Victoria H. Kauffman, Esq., Amber M. Hufft, Esq., and James A. Vatne, 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, and arguing that awardee's proposal should have been rejected for failing to comply with proposal preparation instructions, is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations, and there was no basis for the agency to reject the awardee's proposal. 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, engaged in unequal discussions, and made an unreasonable source selection decision. 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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