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 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1997-11-10 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-277674 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277674 P0b002ee18fd4cc41 f:277674 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-277674 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-277674 B-277674 Comptroller General Decision

Agency unreasonably concluded protester's fixed-price offer lacked price realism because of the protester's failure to propose salary escalation and therefore its perceived inability to retain employees, where protester proposed to use part of general and administrative (G&A) budget for employee bonuses; agency's conclusion that G&A budget was inadequate to retain employees was premised on agency's miscalculation of amount of that budget. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277674/html/GAOREPORTS-B-277674.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277674/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-277674.pdf GAO/B-277674 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277674 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-277674; The Arora Group, Inc., B-277674, November 10, 1997; Title 15 Section 637(a) 15 U.S.C. 637(a)