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B-409584,B-409584.2 1 (2014-06-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqku0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 Decision [e for pic release. Matter of: Alutiiq Pacific, LLC File: B-409584; B-409584.2 Date: June 18, 2014 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., and J. Matthew Carter, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. William A. Roberts, III, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and Nooree Lee, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Bowhead Professional Solutions, LLC, an intervenor. Debra J. Talley, Esq., and Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated proposals is sustained where agency improperly credited awardee with experience arising from contracts performed by two affiliated concerns, even though the record shows the proposal does not clearly detail or explain how the affiliated concerns will contribute meaningfully to contract performance, as required by solicitation. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably credited awardee with offering to furnish large proportion of incumbent staff is sustained, where record shows that agency's evaluation failed to take into consideration the fact the awardee was proposing compensation for a majority of the incumbent staff that is substantially below what the incumbent proposes to pay the same staff. 3. Protest that agency disparately assigned strengths to proposals during its evaluation is sustained where record shows that agency assigned different number of strengths to awardee's and protester's proposals for offering essentially the same feature. DECISION Alutiiq Pacific, LLC (AP), of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the award of a contract to Bowhead Professional Solutions, LLC, (BPS) of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124P-1 3-R-0009, issued by the Department of the Army