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B-401079 1 (2009-04-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadavo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A G A O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Camber Corporation File: B-401079 Date: April 29, 2009 Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., and Michael R. Pillsbury, Esq., Sirote & Permutt, for the protester. Damon M. Semmens, Esq., and Emanuel Anton, Esq., Anton Law Group, for NEK Advanced Securities, Inc., the intervenor. Blane Lewis, Esq., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency improperly determined that the protester's cost proposal lacked realism is denied where the record shows that the protester was not prejudiced by the agency's determination, because the agency in fact considered the protester's proposal for award and reasonably determined that another proposal represented the best value to the government. 2. Challenge to an agency's best value determination is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the awardee's proposal contained advantages that were worth the cost premium. DECISION Camber Corporation, of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to NEK Advanced Securities, Inc. (NEK), of Albuquerque, New Mexico, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HDTRAl-09-R- 0001, for site survey support services. The protester asserts that the agency should have evaluated Camber's most probable cost using the amounts that the protester proposed; that the agency improperly determined that its cost proposal lacked realism; that the agency unreasonably determined that NEK's proposed cost was

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