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B-421923 Nov 30, 2023 1 (2023-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaopqw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. The entire decision has now been approved for public release Matter of: BCG Federal Corporation File: B-421923 Date: November 30, 3023 Jennifer S. Zucker, Esq., Jeffery M. Chiow, Esq., Christopher M. O'Brien, Esq., and Eleanor M. Ross, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for the protester. Jared Sammons, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Due to the specific characteristics of the agency's requirements, the agency reasonably determined that requiring offerors to provide cost breakdown information for their proposed labor rates was the only acceptable method for evaluating cost/price reasonableness. 2. Requirement that offerors provide cost breakdown information for their proposed labor rates does not violate the statutory preference for acquisition of commercial items. DECISION BCG Federal Corporation, of Washington, D.C., protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 47QRCA23R0006, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) and referred to as the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus (OASIS+) unrestricted solicitation.1 Agency Report (AR) Tab 1, Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1;2 see AR, Tab 2, RFP. BCG challenges the solicitation's 1 The OASIS+ program consists of six separate government-wide multiple-award indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) procurements. Five of the six procurements are set aside for various types of small businesses and are not challenged by this protest; the sixth procurement is unrestricted and is the subject of this protest. 2 Page number citations in this decision refer to the Adobe PDF page numbers in the documents submitted.

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