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B-418828.4,B-418828.5,B-418828.6 Mar 17, 2021 1 (2021-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaollp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 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: AECOM Management Services, Inc. File: B-418828.4; B-418828.5; B-418828.6 Date: March 17, 2021 Kevin P. Connelly, Esq., Kelly E. Buroker, Esq., and Jeffrey M. Lowry, Esq., Vedder Price, P.C., for the protester. J. Alex Ward, Esq., W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., Alissandra D. Young, Esq., and Lyle F. Hedgecock, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Vertex Aerospace, LLC, the intervenor. Jason B. Nelson, Esq., Deborah N. Borges, Esq., Christopher B. Erly, Esq., Kristina Hogan, Esq., and Sarah M. Erly, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that agency held unequal exchanges with offerors in a procurement conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 16 is sustained where the solicitation required the agency to treat offerors fairly but the agency permitted only the awardee to substantially revise its proposal despite conducting exchanges with multiple offerors. 2. Protest asserting that agency unreasonably evaluated awardee's compliance with the solicitation's small business participation requirement is denied where the agency reasonably considered the information included in the awardee's proposal and was not obligated to go beyond the contents of that proposal in evaluating the awardee's compliance with this requirement. 3. Protest alleging that agency applied an unstated evaluation criterion in evaluating protester's technical approach is denied where the weakness assessed by the agency was reasonably related to the solicitation's evaluation criteria. 4. Protest asserting that agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's failure to price required proposal elements is denied where the agency evaluated the awardee's price proposal reasonably and in accordance with the solicitation's evaluation criteria.

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