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B-416263.5 1 (2020-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaoe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Battelle Memorial Institute File: B-416263.5 Date: January 23, 2020 Phillip R. Seckman, Esq., Eric. P. Roberson, Esq., and DeAnna R. Hamilton, Esq., Dentons US LLP, for the protester. Damien C. Specht, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Alissandra D. Young, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for Laulima Government Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Richard Bergeron, Esq., and Tami S. Hagberg, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Challenge to the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical proposal is denied where the agency reasonably explains why findings by some evaluators were not adopted in the final evaluation. 2. Challenge to the evaluation of the awardee's past performance is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 3. Challenge to the evaluation of the awardee's proposed costs is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the awardee's direct labor costs were realistic, despite some being lower than costs for the incumbent contract. 4. Challenge to the award decision is denied where the agency reasonably explained that the protester's higher technically rated proposal was not worth the higher evaluated cost as compared to the awardee's proposal. DECISION Battelle Memorial Institute, of Columbus, Ohio, protests the award of a contract to Laulima Government Solutions, LLC, of Honolulu, Hawaii, by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under request for proposals (RFP) No. DHHS- NIHAO2016038, which was issued for support services to operate and manage the

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