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 2001-05-14 monographic deposited born digital 30 p. GA 1.13:B-287189 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-287189 P0b002ee18fd488c2 f:287189 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-287189 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-287189 B-287189 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protester challenging a cost comparison conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 was not required to file or participate in an appeal to the agency's administrative appeals board (AAB) as a prerequisite to filing a protest at the General Accounting Office, where the protester's private-sector offer had been determined to be more economical than performance in-house before this determination was reversed by the AAB and where the revisions made by OMB Transmittal Memorandum No. 22 to the Circular's Revised Supplemental Handbook that arguably require protester to file an appeal were not applicable to this cost comparison. 2. Protest challenging a cost comparison conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76 is sustained, where the agency did not reasonably determine that the in-house plan satisfied the performance work statement's requirements. 3. Protest of the agency's administrative appeals board's decisions, which reversed the original cost comparison determination in favor of the protester, is sustained where the board's determination as to how much staffing was required to be added to the in-house "most efficient organization" to perform the performance work statement requirements lacked a reasonable basis. 4. In a negotiated procurement conducted pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-76, in which the private-sector offer was to be selected on the basis of a cost/technical trade-off, the agency improperly failed to consider the protester's offer to meet a performance standard that appeared to exceed the performance work statement requirements. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-287189/html/GAOREPORTS-B-287189.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-287189/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-287189.pdf GAO/B-287189 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-287189 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-287189; BAE Systems, B-287189; B-287189.2, May 14, 2001;