Awardee Not Required to Price Additional Proposed Employee on Fixed-Price Contract; GAO B-413713.2, ALQIMI National Security Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s past performance evaluation is denied, where the agency reasonably declined to consider a reference that did not satisfy the RFP’s requirement for a minimum of one year of performance at the time of proposal submission, even though the one year mark had passed by the time proposals were evaluated; and protest arguing the awardee’s proposal included a material misrepresentation is denied, where the protester provided no evidence the awardee would not provide a certain key employee during the contract’s first option year, even though the awardee did not price out this employee.