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B-409272,B-409272.2,B-409272.3,B-409272.4 1 (2014-02-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Ac ca ntabIIlty Int *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 Decision [...been approvedforpublic release. Matter of: Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. File: B-409272; B-409272.2; B-409272.3; B-409272.4 Date: February 25, 2014 Rand L. Allen, Esq., Kara M. Sacilotto, Esq., Tracye W. Howard, Esq., Brian G. Walsh, Esq., and Jillian D. Volkmar Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the protester. David M. Nadler, Esq., David Y. Yang, Esq., Mary Kim, Esq., and Stephanie M. Zechmann, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Accenture Federal Services LLC, the intervenor. Ashley M. Bender, Esq., and Lori R. Larson, Esq., Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency erred in failing to downgrade awardee's technical proposal as a result of cost realism analysis is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated awardee's proposal and determined that an upward adjustment should be made to the proposed cost on account of unrealistically low labor rates, but that no downgrade of technical scores was necessary where the awardee's labor mix and technical approach were realistic and its low labor rates did not evidence a lack of understanding of the requirements. 2. Protest that agency engaged in disparate treatment by assigning an exceptional strength to awardee's proposal but not to protester's proposal is denied where the record shows there were qualitative differences between the two proposals. DECISION Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), of McLean, Virginia protests the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service's, issuance of a task order to Accenture Federal Services LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 4054,

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