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B-420589,B-420589.2 Jun 15, 2022 1 (2022-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaongp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 version has been
Decision                              approved for public release.
Matter of: General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
File:     B-420589; B-420589.2
Date:     June 15, 2022
Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Nathaniel E. Castellano, Esq., Carla J. Weiss, Esq., Moshe
B. Broder, Esq., and Scott E. Whitman, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, for the protester.
James J. McCullough, Esq., Michael J. Anstett, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq.,
Katherine L. St. Romain, Esq., and Elizabeth J. Kalanchoe, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris,
Shriver & Jacobson LLP; Deneen J. Melander, Esq., Michael L. Waldman, Esq., and
Jason Shaffer, Esq., Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, for Leidos, Inc., the
intervenor.
Kara G. Hong, Esq., and James W. DeBose, Esq., Department of Defense, for the
agency.
Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of technical proposals and past
performance is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable, adequately
documented, and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of staffing approaches is denied where
the awardee's proposed approach was consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and
the offerors' different proposed approaches were the result of independent business
judgments, not a latent ambiguity in the solicitation's terms.
3. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in misleading discussions is denied where
the agency's discussions reasonably identified the areas of the protester's proposal that
were of concern to the agency, and the protester's upward adjustments to its proposed
labor rates were the result of its own independent business judgment.
DECISION
General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT), of Falls Church, Virginia,
protests the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract and
issuance of an initial task order to Leidos, Inc., of Reston, Virginia, under request for

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