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B-412990.2 1 (2016-10-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadssx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Glacier Technical Solutions, LLC File: B-412990.2 Date: October 17, 2016 S. Lane Tucker, Esq., and Sarah R. Langberg, Esq., Stoel Rives LLP, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Michelle E. Litteken, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the intervenor. Scott N. Flesch, Esq., CPT Meghan E. Mahaney, and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical proposal, as well as the agency's best-value decision, is sustained where the record shows that the agency's evaluation and award decision failed to acknowledge that an aspect of the awardee's technical approach was rejected by the agency. 2. Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation and adjustments to the protester's proposed labor costs is denied where the record shows that the agency performed a reasonable cost evaluation. DECISION Glacier Technical Solutions, LLC (Glacier), a small business of El Paso, Texas, protests the award of a contract to SAWTST, LLC, a small business of Peachtree, Georgia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91151-14-R-0002, issued by the Department of the Army for test and evaluation technical services. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of the awardee's technical proposal. Additionally, Glacier argues that the Army's cost realism evaluation of SAWTST's proposal was unreasonable, while also contending that the agency improperly adjusted Glacier's proposed labor costs upward. Finally, Glacier asserts that the agency's source selection decision is flawed because it failed to consider the performance risk associated with the awardee's proposal.

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