United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-05-16 monographic deposited born digital 7 p. GA 1.13:B-270880 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270880 P0b002ee18fd46ac9 f:270880 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-270880 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-270880 B-270880 Comptroller General Decision

1. Protest that contracting agency improperly allowed a directed source subcontractor that was also competing as a prime contractor to obtain an unfair competitive advantage is denied where the record shows that the contracting agency met its responsibility in such situations to ensure that all offerors are competing on an equal basis, and where any prejudice that the protester may have suffered was a result of its decision to ignore the solicitation's explicit instructions for preparing its price. <p/>2. Contracting agency was not required to conduct a cost analysis of offerors' proposals even though offerors were required to submit cost and pricing data where the contracting officer reasonably determined that there was adequate price competition, and where the solicitation specifically advised that award of the fixed-price contract would be on a "price-only" basis, with the only cost analysis to occur after award, pursuant to a reopener provision. 3. Protest that the contracting agency and the directed source subcontractor knew that the solicitation's surrogate price for the directed subcontract was unreasonably high is dismissed as untimely where the protester was provided information prior to submitting its best and final offer that triggered its duty to raise this issue at that time. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270880/html/GAOREPORTS-B-270880.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270880/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-270880.pdf GAO/B-270880 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270880 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-270880; Valentec Systems, Inc.; Title 10 Section 2304(c)(1) 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1)