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B-406136,B-406136.2 1 (2012-02-15)

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I     QA                                                                 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.
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          Decision

          Matter of:   Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC

          File:        B-406136; B-406136.2

          Date:        February 15, 2012

          Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Kelly Krystyniak, Esq.,
          Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester.
          Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Nicole J. Owren-Wiest, Esq., and Tracye Winfrey Howard,
          Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Cubic Worldwide Technical Services, Inc., the intervenor.
          Amanda M. Willis, Esq., Col. Mark S. Teskey, Esq., and Douglas Chicka, Esq.,
          Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
          Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest challenging an agency's determination that the awardee's fixed price was
          realistic is denied, where the agency compared the awardee's low price to the
          government's cost estimate and concluded that the awardee's pricing assumptions
          were realistic and consistent with the firm's technical approach.
          DECISION

          Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, of Dulles, Virginia, protests the award
          of a contract to Cubic Worldwide Technical Services, Inc., of San Diego, California,
          under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA5613-11 -R-001 2, issued by the
          Department of the Air Force for flight simulator training services. Raytheon
          challenges the agency's price realism evaluation of the awardee's proposal.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          The RFP, issued under the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal
          Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, provided for award of a fixed-price contract to
          provide academic and flight simulator training at Aviano Air Base, Italy; Royal Air
          Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom; and Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, for a

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