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B-405993,B-405993.2 1 (2012-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadonc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. File: B-405993; B-405993.2 Date: January 19, 2012 Rand L. Allen, Esq., Kara M. Sacilotto, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., John R. Prairie, Esq., and Samantha M. Shinsato, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Webber, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., Kevin R. Pinkney, Esq., Craig S. King, Esq., and Judith B. Kassel, Esq., Arent Fox LLP, for VSE Corporation, an intervenor. Michael B. Hedrick, Esq., Kerry G. Hotopp, Esq., Gwendolyn A. Iaci, Esq., and Andrew C. Saunders, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation of awardee's proposal is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency's conclusions were reasonable. 2. Protest that awardee's cost proposal failed to comply with a material solicitation requirement (a mandated allocation of labor between stateside and overseas locations within a notional work package) is denied where the awardee's cost proposal was consistent with a reasonable interpretation of the solicitation requirement, and the agency's subsequent evaluation ensured a fair comparison on a common basis notwithstanding the offerors' different understandings of the requirement. 3. Exchanges between the awardee and the Defense Contract Audit Agency in a negotiated procurement after the contracting agency's receipt of proposals, intended to further explain the basis of indirect rates included within the awardee's cost proposal, did not constitute discussions, where the exchange clarified information already present in the awardee's proposal and the awardee was not presented with an opportunity to revise its proposal.

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