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B-414719 1 (2017-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtwb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Applied Research Solutions File: B-414719 Date: August 28, 2017 Barbara A. Duncombe, Esq., Anthony M. Busch, Esq., and Suzanne Sumner, Esq., Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, for the protester. Scott A. Freling, Esq., Tyler Evans, Esq., and Evan R. Sherwood, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Oasis Systems, LLC, the intervenor. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Michael G. McCormack, Esq., and Beatrice K. Foster, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's price realism analysis is denied where the record shows the agency's analysis was reasonable. DECISION Applied Research Solutions (ARS), of Beavercreek, Ohio, protests the issuance of a task order to Oasis Systems, LLC, of Lexington, Massachusetts, under task order request for proposals (TORP) No. FA4890-16-R-0035, issued by the Department of the Air Force for Air Combat Command (ACC) Directorate of Strategic Plans, Programs, Requirements and Assessments (A5/8/9) staff support services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of ARS' prices as unrealistically low and the subsequent exclusion of ARS' proposal from consideration for award. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The purpose of this solicitation is to provide the Air Force with staff support in the areas of core function team, weapons systems team, and resource management. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4a, Revised Performance Work Statement (PWS), at 2. The current requirement is a combination of two existing task order (TO) requirements: FA4890-12- D-0014-0092 (TO 0092), and FA4890-12-D-0007-0060 (TO 0060). Both of these task

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