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B-413731.2 1 (2017-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtin0001 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 De is ion been approved for public release. Matter of: A-P-T Research, Inc. File: B-413731.2 Date: April 3, 2017 J. Dale Gipson, Esq., Tracy A. Marion, Esq., and Katherine E. McGuire, Esq., Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne PC, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Patrick T. Rothwell, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Ambika J. Biggs, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Alphaport, Inc., the intervenor. Brian M. Stanford, Esq., Victoria H. Kauffman, Esq., and Tracy Lee Belford, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's proposal under the mission suitability factor and the cost realism assessment is sustained where non-incumbent awardee proposed high retention rate for incumbent employees, agency determined that awardee's proposed professional compensation was at low end of the experience and compensation scales used for evaluation, and contemporaneous record lacked a reasoned basis for finding awardee's professional compensation or proposed costs to be acceptable or realistic. 2. Protest that agency failed to reasonably analyze a potential impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest (OCI) posed by the awardee's major subcontractor, and the awardee's proposed OCI mitigation plan, is sustained where the contemporaneous record reflected only pre-solicitation analysis of the potential for OCIs, and lacked any documentation to support the agency's argument that the evaluation of proposals had assessed the OCI and found the awardee's proposed mitigation plan to be sufficient. DECISION A-P-T Research, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Alphaport, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, also a small business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNK1 6567219R, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for various support services.