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B-288785 1 (2001-12-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamso0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: NLX Corporation File: B-288785; B-288785.2 Date: December 7, 2001 David R. Johnson, Esq., Michael K. Murphy, Esq., and Joshua D. Hess, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, for the protester. Thomas P. Barletta, Esq., Peter L. Wellington, Esq., Paul R. Hurst, Esq., and Robert A. Bailey, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson, for TYBRIN Corporation, the intervenor. Kerri A. Cox, Esq., Gregory H. Petkoff, Esq., and Richard T. Trowbridge, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency evaluation of proposals is unobjectionable where it is reasonable and consistent with solicitation evaluation criteria, and adequately documented; protester's substantial, inadequately explained price reduction in its final proposal revision was reasonably assessed as introducing proposal risk. DECISION NLX Corporation protests the award of a contract to TYBRIN Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. F42600-01-R-0003, for a mission planning support contract (MPSC), issued as a total small business set-aside by the Department of the Air Force, Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. NLX contends that the Air Force's evaluation of the NLX and TYBRIN proposals was improper and unreasonable in a multitude of respects, all to the detriment of NLX. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The MPSC is intended to provide support services for the Air Force Mission Support System Program Office, and combines two existing contracts, one of which provides mission planning system support facility services for the system support facility (SSF) at Hill AFB, and the other provides system support representatives (SSR) services at various Air Force sites in the United States and overseas. NLX is the

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