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B-271302 1 (1996-07-03)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548

Decision



Matter of: Allied Technology Group, Inc.

File:        B-271302; B-271302.2

Date:        July 3, 1996

Donald G. Featherstun, Esq., Mitchell H. Segal, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather &
Geraldson, for the protester.
James J. Regan, Esq., Paul Shnitzer, Esq., and Bennett J. Matelson, Esq., Crowell &
Moring, and Paul K. Milmed, Esq., White & Case, for Weiss Associates, the
intervenors.
Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., and Patrick M. Burke, Esq., Department of Energy, for the
agency.
Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Technical evaluation of proposals for environmental restoration and related
services is unobjectionable where it is reasonably based and consistent with the
evaluation criteria and protester's identification of alleged evaluation flaws lacks
any support in the record.

2. Where solicitation provides specified level of effort and skill mix, agency's cost
evaluation consisting primarily of analysis of direct labor rates is reasonable.
Exclusion of certain subcontractor costs from agency's most probable cost analysis
is reasonable where costs were insubstantial and solicitation did not call for these
costs to be included in calculating proposal cost.
DECISION

Allied Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) protests the award of a contract to Weiss
Associates under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP03-95SF20686, issued by
the Department of Energy for environmental restoration, decontamination and
decommissioning, and waste management activities at the Laboratory for Energy
Related Health Research (LEHR) and other selected sites in California. ATG
contends that Energy's evaluation of the proposals was flawed, its cost evaluation
was inadequate, and that the source selection official (SSO) failed to exercise his
independent judgment.

We deny the protests.

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