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B-278466 1 (1998-02-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahos0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Hughes STX Corporation File: B-278466 Date: February 2, 1998 Richard J. Webber, Esq., and Alison J. Micheli, Esq., Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, for the protester. David S. Cohen, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, and Helaine G. Elderkin, Esq., for Computer Sciences Corporation, an intervenor. Lee Wolanin, Esq., John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Department of Transportation, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where the cost realism evaluation was unreasonable and discussions conducted with the protester concerning its proposed direct labor rates were not meaningful. DECISION Hughes STX Corporation protests the award of a contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DTRS57-97-R-00001, issued by the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Department of Transportation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for on-site information systems support. Hughes challenges the agency's evaluation of cost realism, conduct of discussions, and source selection decision. We sustain the protest. The RFP, issued on December 19, 1996, contemplated the award of a level-of-effort, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a 2-year base period and three 1-year option periods. For each year of the contract, the RFP required offerors to provide 287 direct labor years of information systems (IS) personnel and 13 direct labor years of contract administration (CA) personnel.1 The RFP specified ten IS and nine CA labor categories and provided staffing levels for each category. Under the RFP, an 1Under the RFP, a single labor year equals 2,087 hours of direct labor.

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