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B-411302,B-411302.2 1 (2015-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrhi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General iity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT-FoR-PUBICRELEASE 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: ARCADIS U.S., Inc. File: B-411302; B-411302.2 Date: July 7, 2015 Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. Jon W. Burd, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for the intervenor. Maria S. Kavouras, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, 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 1. Protest that agency failed to perform an adequate cost realism analysis with respect to the awardee's low proposed indirect rates is denied where the awardee proposed its rates as ceiling rates, thus eliminating the risk of cost overruns, and the agency reasonably considered whether the proposed rates were so low as to create a performance risk. 2. Protest that by requesting the protester to propose its indirect rates as ceiling rates the agency misled the protester into believing its rates were too low, is denied where the agency's discussion question explained that the request was based on fact that the proposed rates were lower than the protester's historic rates. DECISION ARCADIS U.S., Inc., of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, protests the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) award of a contract to Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Tullahoma, Tennessee, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SOL-C1-13-00050, for research laboratory support for the EPA's Office of Research and Development at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. ARCADIS complains that the EPA failed to hold meaningful discussions, and failed to perform an adequate cost realism analysis of Jacobs' proposal. We deny the protest. The solicitation provided for award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort contract, with a one-year base period and four option years, to the offeror whose proposal

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