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 1998-01-05 monographic deposited born digital 14 p. GA 1.13:B-278168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278168 P0b002ee18fd4cb7e f:278168 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-278168 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-278168 B-278168 Comptroller General Decision 1. Agency reasonably downgraded the protester's management proposal and made an upward adjustment in determining the proposal's most probable cost, where the proposal did not demonstrate the protester's ability to perform the agency's requirements based upon a significantly reduced staff during the contract option years, during which the agency does not anticipate any significant reduction in its requirements.<p/>2. Agency was not required to discuss the protester's proposal to augment its staff with personnel from another contract, where the agency reasonably did not view this weakness as material until the protester proposed a significant staffing reduction in its best and final offer and increased its reliance upon this other contract's personnel to supplement its staff.<p/>3. The excellent rating accorded to the awardee's best and final offer did not improperly reflect the application of an unstated evaluation factor and was reasonably based upon numerous, uncontested proposal strengths, notwithstanding that the awardee's staffing levels were lower than the government estimate.<p/>4. Agency properly allowed the awardee to correct a clerical error in a cost proposal spreadsheet after the submission of best and final offers through clarifications, rather than discussions, where the existence of the mistake, and the amount actually intended, were clear from the face of the proposal, and the correction did not prejudice the interests of another offeror. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278168/html/GAOREPORTS-B-278168.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278168/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-278168.pdf GAO/B-278168 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278168 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-278168; Joint Threat Services, B-278168; B-278168.2, January 5, 1998;