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G A O Comptroller General
Accountabilty * 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.
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Matter of: Raytheon Company
File: B-413981
Date: January 17, 2017
Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Gary J. Campbell, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq.,
Kristopher J. Berr, Esq., and Erin F. Masini, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the
protester.
Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., Protorae Law PLLC, for Leidos, Inc., the intervenor.
Judith L. Richardson, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated awardee's technical proposal is
denied where agency reasonably considered awardee's innovative technical
approach and concluded that it was superior to protester's approach.
2. Agency reasonably determined that awardee's proposed rates were realistic
where those rates reflected the awardee's proposed technical approach of
[redacted].
DECISION
Raytheon Company, of Sterling, Virginia, protests the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency's (DTRA or agency) award of a task order to Leidos, Inc., of Reston,
Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HDTRA1-14-WMD-0058 to
provide engineering support and vulnerability assessments.' Raytheon asserts that
1 DTRA is the Department of Defense agency responsible for countering weapons
of mass destruction (WMD), and the agency states that the DTRA division for which
this procurement is being conducted (referred to as J9CXA) develops new
methodologies, processes and technological applications for detecting, locating,
identifying, physically and functionally characterizing, modeling, and assessing new
and existing Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) and WMD targets to support
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