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B-405163.2,B-405163.3,B-405163.4,B-405163.5 1 (2012-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoon0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General Accountability * 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: QinetiQ North America, Inc. File: B-405163.2; B-405163.3; B-405163.4; B-405163.5 Date: January 25, 2012 J. Scott Hommer, III, Esq., Paul A. Debolt, Esq., Brendan M. Lill, Esq., and George W. Wyatt, IV, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., Michael J. Slattery, Esq., and Jade C. Totman, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Qbase-McNeil Integrated Solutions, RLLP, the intervenor. Brett T. Egusa, Esq., and John T. Kirsch, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest based on an alleged violation of the Procurement Integrity Act is denied, where, consistent with Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements, the agency investigated the alleged disclosure of protester's employees' resumes to the awardee by a protester's former employee (who the awardee proposed and hired as a key contract personnel) and found no evidence of the alleged disclosure or any impact on the procurement and where protester has not shown that it was competitively disadvantaged. 2. Protest of an agency's technical and price evaluations is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated proposals consistent with the evaluation criteria, extensively documenting qualitative differences between the protester's and awardee's proposals. 3. Protest that an agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions and misled the protester is denied, where the agency informed the protester in numerous rounds of discussions of its evaluated deficiencies and weaknesses and did not mislead the protester.

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