Agency Engaged in Ex Parte Communication with Awardee, but Did Not Prejudice Protester; COFC No. 16 1576C, Limco Airepair, Inc. v. The United States

Protest challenging the agency’s failure to perform a price realism analysis is denied, where the record demonstrated the agency performed and documented such an analysis, and where the role of the court is not to decide which method the agency should use to perform a price realism analysis; and protest challenging the agency’s ex parte communication with the awardee as prejudicial is denied, where the protest did not demonstrate that its price was based on a misunderstanding about the requirements and therefore was not prejudiced.