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 1999-11-03 monographic deposited born digital 16 p. GA 1.13:B-283307 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-283307 P0b002ee18fd47a4c f:283307 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-283307 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-283307 B-283307 Comptroller General Decision Protest challenging the validity of a source selection decision where the selection official chose the awardee's technically equal, higher cost proposal based on his conclusion that the protester's lower proposed costs were not reliable (in the SSA's view, they either would increase over time or would reflect reduction in quality of services provided), is sustained where (1) the selection decision is not adequately documented under the revised Part 15 Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements that documentation of tradeoff decisions include the benefits associated with additional costs; (2) the decision is improperly based on proposed, rather than evaluated, costs, because the agency did not perform a cost realism analysis of final costs; and (3) the concerns raised by the selection official about the protester's costs were shown during a hearing to be unsupported by the facts in the record. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-283307/html/GAOREPORTS-B-283307.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-283307/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-283307.pdf GAO/B-283307 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-283307 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-283307; ITT Federal Services International Corporation, B-283307; B-283307.2, November 3, 1999;