[Protest of GSA Contract Award for Engineering Services]

A firm protested a General Services Administration (GSA) contract award for conversion and sustainment engineering services, contending that: (1) GSA improperly evaluated the awardee's bid prices; (2) the solicitation's cost evaluation method permitted bidders to improperly buy-in and later recover costs through fixed-price delivery orders; and (3) GSA failed to comply with the Service Contract Act (SCA). GAO held that: (1) the protester untimely filed after bid opening its protest of the solicitation's cost evaluation methodology; (2) GSA reasonably evaluated the awardee's bid prices and determined that they did not constitute an improper buy-in; (3) the solicitation permitted the bidders to base their bid prices on other than a standard 40-hour work week; and (4) the protester was not sufficiently interested to protest GSA failure to comply with SCA, since it would not be in line for award even if its protest were sustained. Accordingly, the protest was denied in part and dismissed in part.