B-278516.3,B-278516.4: Jul 8, 1998

A firm requested reconsideration of its denied protest of a Navy contract award for support services. GAO had held that: (1) the Navy essentially performed a cost/technical tradeoff analysis in selecting the awardee's offer for award; (2) the Navy erred in failing to credit the awardee for the proposed overhead cost gap in the Navy's cost realism analysis; and (3) there was no evidence of the awar...

B-278516.3,B-278516.4: Jul 8, 1998

Request for reconsideration is denied. That there was no evidence of RCI practicing a bait-and-switch in its offer of personnel. Evaluation factors and subfactors were stated. Offerors informed that the technical evaluation factors combined were significantly more important than cost. Offerors were also informed that cost realism would be evaluated. Some of the labor categories were identified as...