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B-418673.5 1 (2020-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecdb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiO 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: The Severson Group, LLC File: B-418673.5 Date: December 4, 2020 Matthew E. Feinberg, Esq., Lauren R. Brier, Esq., and Matthew E. Kreiser, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Daniel F. Edwards, Esq., and Tara D. Hopkins, Esq, Frost Brown Todd, LLC, for the intervenor. Melissa Martin, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee engaged in an impermissible bait and switch of a key employee is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the proposed key employee was not available or that the awardee intended to replace the proposed key employee with a less qualified person. DECISION The Severson Group, LLC (Severson), of San Marcos, California, an 8(a) small business concern, protests the award of a contract by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command, to the State of Hawaii, Department of Human Services, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Ho'opono-Services for the Blind (Ho'opono), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N0060420Q4005, for mess attendant services for the Silver Dolphin Bistro, Joint Base Pearl Harbor. The protester contends that the awardee proposed a key person that it knew would not be available to perform, that is, the awardee engaged in a bait and switch.1 1 The contract under this solicitation was initially awarded to Ho'opono. Severson protested the award and the agency took corrective action which rendered the protest academic. As a result, we dismissed the protest. The Severson Group, LLC, B-418673, May 21, 2020 (unpublished decision). Severson then protested the agency's proposed corrective action. We denied that protest. The Severson Group, LLC,

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