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 1997-02-07 monographic deposited born digital 13 p. GA 1.13:B-275321 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-275321 P0b002ee18fd4517e f:275321 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-275321 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-275321 B-275321 Comptroller General Decision

1. Agency reasonably determined that an upward adjustment in the awardee's proposed costs was not warranted where the agency found that the awardee's uncompensated overtime rates were reasonable and that its proposed labor escalation rates were adequately justified. <p/>2. Adjectival rating for the awardee's proposal which was equal to the protester's rating under the personnel evaluation criterion was not unreasonable, even though the agency identified a number of weaknesses in the relevant section of the awardee's proposal and did not identify any weaknesses in the relevant section of the protester's proposal, because the weaknesses were identified with regard to only a small percentage of the awardee's proposed personnel and were reasonably accounted for in the agency's risk assessment of this criterion.<p/>3. The selection of a lower-rated, lower-cost offer for award over a higher-rated, higher-cost offer in a best value procurement in which technical merit was stated to be more important than evaluated cost was not improper where the agency reasonably concluded that the higher-rated offer was only slightly better than the lower-rated offer with regard to overall technical merit and that the slight advantage in technical merit was not outweighed by the lower-rated offer's lower evaluated cost. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-275321/html/GAOREPORTS-B-275321.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-275321/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-275321.pdf GAO/B-275321 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-275321 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-275321; Ares Corporation; Title 29 Section 201 29 U.S.C. 201