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B-418374 1 (2020-03-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeawk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Sayres & Associates Corporation File: B-418374 Date: March 30, 2020 Andrew P. Hallowell, Esq., Pargament & Hallowell, PLLC, for the protester. Maria L. Panichelli, Esq., Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, for Reliability and Performance Technologies, LLC, d/b/a RP Technologies, the intervenor. Ryan Banach, Esq., Naval Sea Systems Command, for the agency. Joshua R. Gillerman, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cost realism evaluation is sustained where the agency's evaluation failed to reasonably evaluate the protester's proposed escalation rate. DECISION Sayres and Associates Corporation, of Washington, D.C., protests the issuance of a task order to Reliability and Performance Technologies d/b/a RP Technologies (RP), of Dublin, Pennsylvania, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N00164-18-R-3007, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command, for engineering support services. The protester argues that the agency's cost realism evaluation was unreasonable. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The Navy issued the RFP on June 20, 2018, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5, to holders of Navy Seaport-e indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts.' The RFP anticipated issuing a single cost-plus-fixed-fee task order, 1 Although firms that compete for task orders under IDIQ contracts are generally referred to as vendors who submit quotations and are issued task orders, the

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