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B-406410 1 (2012-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadowm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA 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. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Rust Consulting, Inc. File: B-406410 Date: May 18, 2012 Paul Hurst, Esq., Martin D. Schneiderman, Esq., Michael J. Navarre, Esq., and Kendall R. Enyard, Esq., Steptoe & Johnson LLP, for the protester. Thomas 0. Mason, Esq., Francis E. Purcell, Esq., and Christopher J. Kimball, Esq., Cooley, LLP, for BMC Group Class Action Services; Merle M. DeLancey, Esq., Charlotte Rothenberg Rosen, Esq., and Shamir Patel, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Garden City Group, Inc.; and Charles Tiefer, Esq., Cuneo Gilbert & Laduca, LLP, for Gilardi & Co., LLC, the intervenors. John R. Caterini, Esq., and John E. Thompson, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against price realism evaluation of awardees' proposals is denied where the agency determined that the awardees' lower proposed labor hours reflected their technical approaches and were not so low as to present a performance risk, and where the protester has not shown the existence of prejudicial error in the evaluation. DECISION Rust Consulting, Inc., of Washington, D.C., protests the Department of Justice's (DOJ) award of contracts to Gilardi & Co., LLC, of San Rafael, California, BMC Group Class Action Services, of Chanhassen, Minnesota, and Garden City Group, Inc., of Lake Success, New York, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DJJE-1 1- RFP-0721, for federal forfeiture claims administration. Rust primarily asserts that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the price realism of the awardees' proposals. We deny the protest.

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