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B-414825,B-414825.2 1 (2017-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtzs0001 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 Decision 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: A-P-T Research, Inc. File: B-414825; B-414825.2 Date: September 27, 2017 J. Dale Gipson, Esq., Tracy A. Marion, Esq., and Katherine E. McGuire, Esq., Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C., for the protester. Barbara S. Kinosky, Esq., David R. Warner, Esq., Heather B. Mims, Esq., and Tyler Freiberger, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for Bastion Technologies, Inc., the intervenor. Jerry L. Seemann, Esq., and Brian M. Stanford, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. Stephanie B. Magnell, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency's use of internal evaluation instructions for the purpose of evaluating proposals represented unstated evaluation criteria is denied, where the agency evaluated past performance based on criteria logically encompassed by the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's upward cost adjustment is denied, where the agency's decision was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 3. Protest of the agency's best-value tradeoff decision is denied, where the agency's decision was reasonable. DECISION A-P-T Research, Inc. (APT), of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract to Bastion Technologies, Inc. (Bastion), of Houston, Texas, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNM16577788R. The agency sought safety and mission assurance services (SMAS) for the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. The protester alleges that the agency's past performance and cost evaluations were flawed and that the best-value tradeoff decision was improper.