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B-278793 1 (1998-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqe0001 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: Coleman Research Corporation File: B-278793 Date: March 16, 1998 James S. Roberts, Jr., Esq., Townes, Woods & Roberts, P.C., for the protester. James J. McCullough, Esq., Joel R. Feidelman, Esq., and James S. Kennell, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, an intervenor. Craig E. Hodge, Esq., and Diane V. Beam, Esq., Department of the Army, 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. In conducting a cost realism analysis under a negotiated procurement for a follow-on cost reimbursement contract, procuring agency reasonably applied the protester's overhead rate from the predecessor contract, instead of the protester's significantly lower proposed rate, where protester's proposal failed to adequately support or justify the newly proposed rate. 2. Under solicitation which provided that cost was significantly less important than technical considerations, award to offeror with superior technical proposal and slightly higher most probable cost is unobjectionable where source selection authority reasonably determines that the lower cost associated with protester's proposal does not outweigh the technical superiority of awardee's proposal. DECISION Coleman Research Corporation protests the award of a contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAHO1-97-R-0172, issued by the Department of the Army for support services concerning weapon systems effectiveness analysis. Coleman challenges the propriety of the agency's upward adjustment of Coleman's most probable cost and the soundness of the agency's cost/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest.

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