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B-414056,B-414056.2,B-414056. 1 (2017-01-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtcc0001 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: Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. File: B-414056; B-414056.2; B-414056.3 Date: January 31, 2017 Paul A. Debolt, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., Melanie J. Totman, Esq., Michael T. Francel, Esq., and Miranda S. Riemer, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., Pamela A. Reynolds, Esq., Shlomo Katz, Esq., and Andrew C. Crawford, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for the intervenor. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Brittany N. Hampton, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of the cost realism analysis of awardee's proposal is denied where agency used awardee's forward pricing rate agreement and Bureau of Labor Statistics data to conduct analysis. DECISION Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to ManTech Advanced Systems International, of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. SSESNG-16-R-2055, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, for software and engineering support. Sotera asserts that the Army did not properly evaluate cost or technical proposals, and improperly converted the basis of award from a best-value tradeoff, as provided for in the solicitation, to a lowest-cost technically acceptable basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 16, was issued to all contractors holding a contract under the Software and Systems Engineering Services Next Generation Multiple Award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-

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