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B-420090.3 Jun 01, 2022 1 (2022-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaonfj0001 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
a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
Decision
been approved for public release.
Matter of: Sabre Systems, Inc.
File:     B-420090.3
Date:     June 1, 2022
Alexander O. Canizares, Esq., Seth H. Locke, Esq., Julia M. Fox, Esq., and Paul Korol,
Esq., Perkins Coie LLP, for the protester.
John E. Jensen, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Robert C. Starling, Esq., and Ariella M.
Cassell, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for American Systems
Corporation, the intervenor.
Brian W. Ritter, Jr., Esq., Garett S. Unger, Esq., and Gina M. Gascoigne, Esq.,
Department of the Navy, for the agency.
Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposed professional
employee compensation plan is sustained where the evaluation relied on an
unreasonable interpretation of the term professional employee to exclude certain
categories of workers.
2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's technical proposal is
denied where the agency reasonably did not assess additional strengths to aspects of
the proposal that met, but did not exceed, requirements.
3. Protest that the agency unreasonably equalized offerors' past performance is denied
where the agency assessed each offeror's past performance record in accordance with
the stated evaluation criteria.
DECISION
Sabre Systems, Inc., of Warminster, Pennsylvania, protests the award of a contract to
American Systems Corporation, of Chantilly, Virginia. Sabre challenges the award
under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00421-20-R-0127, issued by the Department of
the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command, for mission system software engineering,
development, integration, testing, and in-service support for U.S. Naval aircraft major
defense acquisition programs. Sabre contends that the agency's evaluation of

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