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B-417415.2 1 (2019-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeazb0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Inquiries, Inc. File: B-417415.2 Date: December 30, 2019 Craig A. Holman, Esq., and Michael E. Samuels, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq, Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., and Samuel S. Finnerty, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for iWorks Corporation, the intervenor. SoCheung Lee, Esq., Department of Defense, 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 that the awardee had disqualifying organizational conflicts of interests is sustained where the record does not show that the agency meaningfully considered the potential conflicts arising from the awardee's subcontractor's prior and ongoing work on other contracts. 2. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's proposed program manager is denied where there record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the individual's experience. 3. Protest challenging the evaluation of the awardee's staffing plan is denied where the agency reasonably found that the awardee proposed efficiencies as compared to the workload assumptions in the independent government estimate. 4. Protest challenging the agency's price realism analysis is denied where the protester does not demonstrate that the agency's standard deviation calculation affected the reasonableness of the analysis. 5. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's professional compensation is sustained where the agency's evaluation relied on a comparison of the offerors' burdened labor rates, rather than salary ranges and fringe benefits offered.

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