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B-290467 1 (2002-08-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaofr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity* Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: Pacific Support Group, LLC File: B-290467 Date: August 8, 2002 Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Dorn C. McGrath, III, Esq., and Stephen M. Sorrett, Esq., ReedSmith, for the protester. Raymond M. Saunders, Esq., Lt. Col. Daniel K. Poling, Maj. Karl W. Kuhn, and Capt. Timothy J. Ryan, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest against determination to retain in-house certain real property maintenance functions as a result of a cost comparison conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, alleging that agency improperly failed to include costs for all of the personnel required to meet the requirements of the performance work statement (PWS), or to appropriately reduce the evaluated cost of contractor performance, is denied; the record provides no basis to question the reasonableness of the agency's finding that, as adjusted, the cost of in-house performance included all staffing necessary to meet the PWS requirements, and that after appropriate reduction to the evaluated cost of contractor performance had been taken as well, the cost of in-house performance remained low by a substantial margin. 2. Adjustment to the most efficient organization (MEO) staffing cost estimate as necessary to satisfy the performance work statement requirements, based on findings by the agency administrative appeals board after consultation with MEO study team, is an appropriate element of agency-level A-76 appeal process, the adoption of which does not provide a basis to object to the propriety of the cost comparison determination. DECISION Pacific Support Group, LLC (PSG) protests the Department of the Army's determination to retain in-house the real property maintenance support services for the U.S. Army Garrison, Hawaii, rather than to contract for these services with PSG under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAPC50-00-R-0007. The Army decided to

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