United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1999-04-12 monographic deposited born digital 13 p. GA 1.13:B-281836 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281836 P0b002ee18fd437c7 f:281836 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-281836 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-281836 B-281836 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that agency improperly credited awardee for proposing the incumbent's key employees is denied where (1) the solicitation permitted offerors to propose personnel from whom the offeror had no commitment, provided the offeror included a compensation package and detailed transition plan found sufficient to enable the offeror to meet the staffing requirements before contract performance; (2) the awardee included such a package and stated in its proposal that it would attempt to hire the incumbent personnel; (3) the awardee's plan to provide salaries at or above the level provided by the incumbent reasonably was evaluated as sufficient to make it likely that the awardee would be able to hire the incumbent employees if it prevailed in the competition.<p/>2. Challenge to the agency's conclusion that three of the awardee's proposed key employees met the experience requirements set forth in the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably concluded that at least two of the three minimally complied with the experience requirements, and with respect to the third, any shortcoming in experience is de minimis and was reasonably reflected in the awardee's point score in the key personnel area.<p/>3. Protester's assertion that the agency improperly selected the lower-rated, lower-priced proposal, rather than the protester's higher-rated, higher-priced one, is denied where the record shows that the cost/technical tradeoff was based on an accurate understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the two proposals. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281836/html/GAOREPORTS-B-281836.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281836/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-281836.pdf GAO/B-281836 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281836 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-281836; Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc., B-281836, April;