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B-404985,B-404985.2 1 (2011-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: Systems Technologies, Inc. File: B-404985; B-404985.2 Date: July 20, 2011 Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos & Lamer, PC, for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., and Michael J. Anstett, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for Sciences Applications International Corporation; Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., Andrew C. Ertley, Esq., and Emily M.Q. Schriver, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; and Nicole Y. Beeler, Esq., John E. Jensen, Esq., Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Daniel S. Herzfeld, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for NCI Information Systems, Inc., the intervenors. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Janet K. Baker, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's significant upward adjustments to the protester's low proposed labor hours based on the independent government estimate in cost realism analysis, where the protester's proposal failed to provide sufficient detail, was reasonably supported by the record and hearing testimony. 2. Agency improperly failed to make downward adjustment in the protester's proposed costs in cost realism analysis to exclude costs for work that was not within the scope of the solicited requirement; however, the protester was not prejudiced by this error. 3. Protest of technical evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where the protester's arguments merely disagree with the agency's evaluation judgment. DECISION Systems Technologies, Inc. (Systek), of West Long Branch, New Jersey, protests awards of contracts to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT), of Fairfax, Virginia, NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), of Reston, Virginia, and

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