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B-294061 1 (2004-08-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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. Decision Matter of: Frontier Technology, Inc. File: B-294061 Date: August 12, 2004 Johnathan M. Bailey, Esq., Bailey & Bailey, for the protester. Capt. Charles K. Bucknor, Jr., and Maj. Gregory R. Bockin, Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency appeal authority's cost comparison decision made pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 is denied where the appeal authority reasonably determined that the cost of in-house performance would be lower than the evaluated cost of contractor performance. DECISION Frontier Technology, Inc. protests the decision of the Department of the Army's appeal authority, pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76, that it would be more economical to perform in-house the requirements of the Directorate of Information Management at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, rather than to contract for these services under request for proposals (RFP) No. DABJ45-03-R-0003. Frontier challenges the appeal authority's cost comparison decision, essentially arguing that if various errors in the government's in-house cost estimate were corrected, the evaluated cost of performance under a contract with Frontier would be lower than the cost of in-house performance. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On December 20, 2002, the Army issued the RFP as a competitive small business set-aside for the provision of information management support services at the USMA. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base period and four 1-year option periods. Offerors were advised that the procurement would

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