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B-289087 1 (2002-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaobv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting 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 been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: NVT Technologies, Inc. File: B-289087 Date: January 3, 2002 John R. Tolle, Esq., William T. Welch, Esq., and Jerome H. Gress, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, and Jeffrey A. Lovitky, Esq., for the protester. Richard G. Welsh, Esq., and Scott W. Johansen, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency decision to retain base operations and maintenance support services in-house as a result of a cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, which alleges that the in-house cost estimate failed to use predetermined or plug-in material costs that private-sector offers were required to offer is denied, where the agency states that the proposed in-house material costs were derived from the same historical data from which the plug-in prices were calculated and it is undisputed that the in-house material costs were higher than the plug-in costs used by the protester. 2. Agency's determination, under a cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, that the most efficient organization for in-house performance identified and stated costs for all positions necessary to perform the performance work statement requirements was reasonable. 3. Protest challenging a cost comparison pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, which alleges that the amount of contract administration costs added to the protester's proposed price was unreasonable because the grade structure of contract administrators was too high, is denied, where the protester did not show that the agency's explanation for the grade structure was unreasonable. DECISION NVT Technologies, Inc. protests the decision of the Department of the Navy not to award a contract to NVT under request for proposals (RFP) No. N68711-01-R-5101, but instead to continue in-house performance of base operations and maintenance

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