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 2000-06-12 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:B-284854 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284854 P0b002ee18fd47cb0 f:284854 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-284854 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-284854 B-284854 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that discussions were not meaningful is denied where the record shows that the agency's questions clearly indicated that certain proposed labor rates were considered too low, and identified the evaluators' concerns that these rates could have an adverse impact on workforce retention.<p/>2. In evaluation of offers for a service contract where the agency placed a strong premium on retaining the incumbent workforce, protester's contention that the agency unreasonably assessed its proposal as high risk under workforce retention subfactor is denied where the evaluation was made in accordance with stated evaluation criteria, and where the record shows that the protester's proposed labor rates are lower than those rates paid to incumbent employees under the previous contracts, and the proposal contained seemingly inconsistent promises to retain 100 percent of all incumbent personnel with salaries at, or above, their previous level, and to do so without exceeding proposed costs.<p/>3. Contention that a tradeoff decision violated the stated evaluation scheme because the selection official concluded that the protester's advantage under the most important evaluation factor was outweighed by the proposal's high risk under a less important evaluation subfactor is denied where the selection official reasonably concluded that the difference between the two proposals under the most important evaluation factor was relatively insignificant, while a detailed review of the two proposals showed that their underlying differences supported the risk assessment, and led the selection official to have greater confidence that the awardee's proposal would be more able to achieve the workforce retention goals of the agency. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284854/html/GAOREPORTS-B-284854.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284854/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-284854.pdf GAO/B-284854 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284854 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-284854; Information Network Systems, Inc., B-284854; B-284854.2, June 12, 2000;