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B-413721.2 1 (2017-02-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtdg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 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 Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Smartronix, Inc. File: B-413721.2 Date: February 22, 2017 James H. Roberts III, Esq., Van Scoyoc Roberts PLLC, for the protester. Lt Col Kevin P. Stiens, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's cost realism analysis and adjustment to protester's proposed costs is denied where the record shows that the agency performed a reasonable cost evaluation. DECISION Smartronix, Inc., a small business of Hollywood, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Atlantic CommTech Corporation, of Norfolk, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8307-16-R-0088, issued by the Department of the Air Force for maintenance support services for the cyberspace vulnerability assessment/hunter (CVA/H) weapon system. Smartronix challenges the agency's cost evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Air Force issued the solicitation on May 10, 2016, as a request for proposals (RFP) to small businesses holding Network-Centric Solutions-2 (NETCENTS-2) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. The RFP contemplated the issuance of a task order with cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursement line items pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5 for a 1-year base period and two option years. RFP at 1. A performance work statement (PWS) outlined the hardware and software maintenance tasks the contractor would perform for CVA/H's 12 cyber protection

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