https://www.gao.gov/products/140147

B-236476: Dec 4, 1989

A firm protested an Air Force contract award for information system operation and maintenance, contending that the: (1) Air Force reopened negotiations only with the awardee and allowed it to modify its subcontracting plan and substitute key personnel; (2) awardee improperly contacted the protester's employees; and (3) Air Force failed to use Defense Contract Audit Agency-approved indirect rates a...

https://www.gao.gov/products/437664

B-236476: Dec 4, 1989

Agency is not required to conduct a second round of best and final offers (BAFOs) where a substitution is made for one key employee who resigned from the awardee's firm after BAFOs but before award. It is not inherently improper for an awardee to recruit and hire personnel employed by the prior incumbent contractor. A challenge to the determination that the awardee was the lowest priced offeror. N...