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B-418034,B-418034.2 1 (2019-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaky0001 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 below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: T31 Solutions, LLC File: B-418034; B-418034.2 Date: December 13, 2019 J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Beth V. McMahon, Esq., ReavesColey, PLLC, for the protester. Michelle F. Kantor, Esq., and William J. Beckley, Esq., McDonald Hopkins LLC, for Darton Innovative Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Lawrence Anderson, Esq., and Colonel Tammie L. Sledge, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the awardee misrepresented the availability of incumbent staff is sustained where the record shows that the awardee did not have a reasonable basis to propose a named individual for a required position and that the misrepresentation had a material effect on the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal as technically acceptable. DECISION T31 Solutions, LLC, of Las Vegas, Nevada, protests the award of a contract to Darton Innovative Technologies, Inc., of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA680019RA005, issued by the Department of the Air Force for courseware development and training services. The protester argues that the awardee's proposal contained material misrepresentations concerning the availability of its proposed personnel. The protester also challenges the agency's price evaluation and best-value tradeoff decision. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFP on August 14, 2019, as a total small business set-aside, to acquire courseware development and training services. See Agency Report (AR), Tab 5, RFP; AR, Tab 7, RFP Performance Work Statement (PWS). The RFP sought a

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