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B-407221 1 (2012-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General rAce°unt.bi ty * Integrity * Reiabilty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Global Protection Group File: B-407221 Date: November 26, 2012 Micah Hoevelman for the protester. Robert M. Elwell, Esq., Kristopher A. Fischer, Esq., and Martha E. Hulley, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. L. Dale Gipson, Esq., and Richard J. Marsden, Esq., Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C., for AQuate Corp., an intervenor. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest contending that award decision was unreasonable because awardee's price was unrealistically low and the awardee lacked relevant past performance is denied, where solicitation did not require a realism analysis for this fixed-price contract and record shows that awardee possessed relevant past performance that agency reasonably evaluated. DECISION Global Protection Group, Inc. (GPGI), of San Antonio, Texas, protests the award of a contract to AQuate Corp., of Huntsville, Alabama, under request for proposals (RFP) N00033-12-R-2000, issued by the Department of the Navy for on-board security services for the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) vessel. GPGI contends that the award to AQuate was unreasonable because the firm's price was unrealistically low and the firm lacked relevant past performance. We deny the protest. The RFP sought a contractor to provide continuous security' for the SBX-1 while 1 The RFP required that security services be provided 24 hours, 7 days a week, for 365 days a year, and that the contractor be able to sustain 58-day rotation schedules. RFP at 7.

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