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B-422162,B-422162.2,B-422162.3 Feb 01, 2024 1 (2024-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaopwk0001 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 De^cson DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Deis ion The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Matter of: Conti Federal Services, LLC been approved for public release. File: B-422162; B-422162.2; B-422162.3 Date: February 1, 2024 Scott F. Lane, Esq., Jayne Marie Rust, Esq., Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Jeffrey S. Newman, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for the protester. Gary J. Campbell, Esq., and Jedidiah K. R. Blake, Esq., Perkins Coie, for Charter Contracting Company, LLC, the intervenor. Jenna N. Gustafson, Esq., and Katherine D. Denzel, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's cost realism evaluation is sustained where record shows agency made unreasonable upward adjustments that raised protester's most probable cost above awardee's. DECISION Conti Federal Services, LLC, a small business of Orlando, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Charter Contracting Company, LLC, a small business of Boston, Massachusetts, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W912WJ-22-R-0014, issued by the Department of the Army, United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for environmental remediation services. The protester primarily challenges the agency's cost realism evaluation. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On September 21, 2022, using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 15, the agency issued the solicitation as a small business set-aside, seeking proposals for environmental remediation services at the Durham Manufacturing Company superfund site located in Durham, Connecticut.1 Contracting Officer's 1 A superfund site is land contaminated by hazardous waste in the United States which has been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a candidate for (continued...)

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