Agency Failed to Consider Impact of Low Compensation on Awardee’s Plan to Retain High Percentage of Incumbent Personnel; GAO B-413731.2, A-P-T Research Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s proposed professional compensation is sustained, where the agency failed to reasonably consider the impact of the awardee’s relatively low compensation rates on its proposed plan to retain a high percentage of incumbent staff; and protest that the agency failed to reasonably analyze a potential impaired objectivity organizational conflict of interest posed by the awardee’s major subcontractor, and the awardee’s proposed OCI mitigation plan, is sustained, where the agency analyzed the potential for OCIs prior to releasing the solicitation, but could present no evidence it reviewed the awardee’s proposed mitigation plan.