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B-299981.2,B-299981.4 1 (2007-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadabb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAS 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: Legacy Management Solutions, LLC File: B-299981.2; B-299981.4 Date: October 10, 2007 Kevin P. Mullen, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, for the protester. Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., and Allison V. Feierabend, Esq., Holland & Knight, for The S.M. Stoller Company, an intervenor. H. Jack Shearer, Esq., and Young H. Cho, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where solicitation contemplated award of fixed-price contract, agency's comparing proposed prices to government estimate and other proposed prices and ensuring that prices reflected labor categories and hours specified in solicitation constituted reasonable price realism analysis. 2. Protest of alleged unbalanced pricing among awardee's proposed labor rates is denied where agency evaluated challenged rates as reasonable and realistic; record shows that rates were within range of all offerors' proposed rates, so that there was no basis to find them significantly overstated or understated, and thus no basis to find them unbalanced. DECISION Legacy Management Solutions, LLC protests the award of a contract to The S.M. Stoller Co. under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP1-07LM00060, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) for support services. Legacy complains that the agency improperly evaluated the technical proposals and failed to perform an adequate price realism analysis. We deny the protest. DOE's legacy program is responsible for managing land structures and facilities that were associated with nuclear weapons production during the cold war and are now closed. The RFP sought support services for this program, and provided for award

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