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B-408587.2,B-408587.3,B-408587.4 1 (2014-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqeo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to I a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. File: B-408587.2; B-408587.3; B-408587.4 Date: March 20, 2014 Paul A. Debolt, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., George W. Wyatt, IV, Esq., Christina K. Kube, Esq., and Anna E. Pulliam, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Mark D. Colley, Esq., Emma V. Broomfield, Esq., Steffen G. Jacobsen, Esq., and Dana E. Peterson, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for Raytheon Company, an intervenor. Debra J. Talley, Esq., and LaTonya McFadden, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of evaluation of proposals for development of software application is denied where agency reasonably assigned a strength to awardee's proposal based upon determination that offeror's integrated product development process would increase the offeror's ability to meet an aggressive schedule without sacrificing performance or increasing cost. 2. Cost realism evaluation was unobjectionable where, in accordance with solicitation provision providing for cost sharing in the event of an under-run relative to the proposed cost, agency reasonably adjusted protester's proposed fee upward to account for its share of savings expected as a result of proposed subcontractor costs being adjusted downward. 3. Protest of adequacy of source selection decision is denied where the source selection authority addressed and compared offerors' relative strengths in the source selection decision, and set forth his basis for finding that awardee's technical superiority outweighed protester's lower probable cost. DECISION Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, protests the Department of the Army's award of a contract to Raytheon Company, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, under

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