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B-404721,B-404721.2 1 (2011-04-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbun0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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. Decision Matter of: ERC, Inc. File: B-404721; B-404721.2 Date: April 19, 2011 Robert J. Symon, Esq., and Daniel P. Golden, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. J. Andrew Watson III, Esq., Stephen D. Davis II, Esq., and L. Justin Burney, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, P.C., for Al Signal Research, Inc., an intervenor. Tina Marie Pixler, Esq., and Dennis J. Gearin, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging cost realism analysis is denied, where agency performed a comprehensive analysis of all major cost elements and relied on reviews and recommendations by the Defense Contract Audit Agency to reasonably determine that proposed costs were realistic for the work to be performed. DECISION ERC, Inc., of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a contract to Al Signal Research, Inc. (ASRI), also of Huntsville, under request for proposals (RFP) No. W31P4Q-09-R-0008, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Material Command, for support services for the Redstone Test Center's Environmental and Component Test Directorate. ERC, the incumbent, challenges the agency's cost realism evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Army issued the RFP on March 20, 2009, as a competitive small business set-aside. RFP at 2. The RFP provided for award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for a 12-month ordering period with four successive 12-month ordering periods, for a total performance period of 60 months. Id. The RFP provided that award of the contract would be made on a

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