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B-293867 1 (2004-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapmq0001 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: AdapTech General Scientific, LLC File: B-293867 Date: June 4, 2004 John E. Jensen, Esq., Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Shaw Pittman, for the protester. Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., and Mary Katherine Holohan, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, for Resource Management Concepts, Inc., an intervenor. Mitzi S. Phalen, Esq., Naval Air Systems Command, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where underlying evaluation record confirms agency's finding of no significant difference in technical quality between protester's and awardee's equally-rated proposals, source selection authority reasonably concluded that awardee's lower-priced proposal represented best value to the government. 2. Allegation of improper bait and switch scheme by awardee based on job offers to incumbent key and non-key personnel is denied where there is no showing that awardee misrepresented availability of its proposed key personnel; job offers were made after incumbent personnel contacted awardee post-award; contract includes key personnel substitution provision; although awardee plans to request substitution of 3 of 11 key personnel, all but one proposed key employee--who left the firm--is available to perform if substitution is not approved; and potential substitution of non-key personnel could have no impact on evaluation, which focused on key, not non-key, personnel qualifications. DECISION AdapTech General Scientific, LLC protests the award of a contract to Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (RMC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00421- 03-R-0114, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division as a competitive section 8(a) set-aside for support services. AdapTech challenges the agency's source selection methodology and asserts that RMC engaged in an improper bait and switch of its proposed personnel.

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