Engineering Services Unlimited, Inc. (ESU) protests the award of a contract to Mainthia Technologies, Inc. under request for offers (RFO) No. 8-1-2-CD-D7142, issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for administrative support services at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama. ESU alleges that the agency improperly induced ESU to raise its offered price and that the ag...

Contracting agency did not induce or coerce the protester into raising its proposed labor rates where the agency was reasonably concerned with protester's ability to attract and retain incumbent personnel. Protest that agency's negotiating techniques led to an impermissible auction is denied. Agency's disclosure that an offeror's proposed labor rates were in certain instances materially lower than...