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B-291618.2,B-291618.3 1 (2003-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyhe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States 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: SRS Technologies File: B-291618.2; B-291618.3 Date: February 24, 2003 J. Patrick McMahon, Esq., William B. Barton IV, Esq., and William T. Welch, Esq., Barton, Baker, McMahon & Tolle, for the protester. Alan Dickson, Esq., Paul C. Burkholder, Esq., and Howard A. Wolf-Rodda, Esq., Epstein, Becker & Green, for Sparta, Inc., an intervenor. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., and Capt. Richard L. Hatfield, Department of the Army, for the agency. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under a solicitation for a cost reimbursement contract for services that did not prohibit or limit the use of uncompensated overtime, the agency unreasonably raised the protester's evaluated costs in the cost realism analysis to remove the impact on the protester's proposed labor rates based on its use of uncompensated overtime from its labor costs. DECISION SRS Technologies protests an award to Sparta, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. HQ0006-02-R-0011, issued by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), for support services for the Deputy for Force Structure Integration and Deployment. SRS protests the agency's cost and technical evaluation and the source selection decision. We sustain the protest. The RFP, issued as a small business set-aside on July 31, 2002, contemplated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort contract for 1 year with 4 option years. The resulting contract will consolidate support services previously covered by two separate contracts for which the incumbent contractors are SRS and Sparta. Award was to be made on a best value basis with non-cost factors collectively being significantly more important than cost. The RFP stated the non-cost factors in

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