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B-407956,B-407956.2 1 (2013-04-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpmu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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: ABSG Consulting, Inc. File: B-407956; B-407956.2 Date: April 18, 2013 William J. Spriggs, Esq., Spriggs Law Group, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., David F. Dowd, Esq., Cameron S. Hamrick, Esq., Luke Levasseur, Esq., and Polly A. Myers, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., an intervenor. William H. Butterfield, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging past performance evaluation is denied where the agency rated protester and awardee the same because both firms had consistently highly- rated past performance, and the agency was not required to give protester additional credit based on its status as the incumbent contractor. 2. Protest that cost realism analysis was unreasonable is denied where the agency reasonably adjusted protester's costs upward using the higher of two overhead rates identified by a subcontractor because the proposal did not adequately explain why the lower overhead rate would apply. 3. Protest that source selection decision was unreasonable is denied where the contracting officer reasonably determined that awardee's lower evaluated cost outweighed protester's advantage in experience as incumbent. DECISION ABSG Consulting, Inc. (ABSG), of Arlington, Virginia, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), of McLean, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCG32-12-R-R00004 for systems engineering and technical assistance services at the Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC) in New London, Connecticut. ABSG argues that the Coast Guard misevaluated the

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