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 2007-01-05 monographic deposited born digital 21 p. GA 1.13:B-298912 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-298912 P0b002ee18fd4b7b4 f:298912 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-298912 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-298912 B-298912 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record establishes that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria.<p/> 2. Agency's cost realism evaluation of awardee's proposal was unreasonable where agency failed to take into account cost adjustments made by its own cost analyst to awardee's proposal, and instead utilized awardee's proposed costs as the basis for its source selection decision.<p/> 3. Agency's cost realism evaluation of awardee's proposal was improper where, although knowing that awardee had proposed to recruit the incumbent workforce and match all existing salaries but had also failed to propose direct labor rates consistent with existing salaries, agency failed to adjust awardee's proposed labor rates as part of its cost realism evaluation.<p/> 4. Protest challenging adequacy of agency's "best value" source selection decision is sustained where there is insufficient information and analysis in the record, which includes both a contemporaneous source selection document and a post-protest statement, to determine that the selection official's key conclusion of technical equality, notwithstanding the higher technical rating assigned to the protester's proposal, was reasonable. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-298912/html/GAOREPORTS-B-298912.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-298912/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-298912.pdf GAO/B-298912 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-298912 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-298912; B-298912, Magellan Health Services, January 5, 2007;