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B-405251,B-405251.2,B-405251.3 1 (2011-10-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoii0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i G A 0 Comptroller General Accuntabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c i s i o n ...................................................................................................................... Matter of: Vizada Inc. File: B-405251; B-405251.2; B-405251.3 Date: October 5, 2011 Frederick W. Claybrook, Jr., Esq., James G. Peyster, Esq., and Adelicia R. Cliffe, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Michael R. Charness, Esq., Jamie F. Tabb, Esq., and Christine N. Roushdy, Esq., Vinson & Elkins LLP, for Stratos Government Services, Inc., an intervenor. Isaac Johnson, Jr., Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably found significantly lower-priced proposal of awardee to be realistic. 2. Protest that agency improperly failed to find the awardee's proposal technically unacceptable for not complying with various material specification requirements is denied, where the record shows that the agency reasonably determined that the proposal was acceptable. 3. Protest that awardee's proposal contained a material misrepresentation is denied where there is no convincing evidence of a misrepresentation. 4. Agency was not required to advise an offeror during discussions of proposal weaknesses that were reasonably not considered significant, even when the weaknesses were noted as a discriminating factor in making the award. DECISION Vizada Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Stratos Government Services, Inc., of Washington, D.C., under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG79-10-R-T10001, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for a Ku-band maritime data communications system to support the Coast Guard's large cutter fleet. Vizada contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated the proposals and failed to conduct meaningful discussions.

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