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B-412375,B-412375.3 1 (2016-01-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrwl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 DOCUM-ENTFOR-PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Abacus Technology Corporation File: B-412375; B-412375.3 Date: January 28, 2016 C. Joel Van Over, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Alan A. Pemberton, Esq., Jason A. Carey, Esq., Patrick J. Stanton, Esq., Frederick C. Benson, Esq., and Tyler Evans, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Oasis Systems, LLC, the intervenor. Maj. George M. Ebert, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cost evaluation is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency reasonably adjusted the protester's proposed costs based on information provided in the protester's proposal. DECISION Abacus Technology Corporation, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Oasis Systems, LLC, of Lexington, Massachusetts, under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. FA8721-15-D-001 0-0003, issued by the Department of the Air Force for engineering and technology acquisition support services. The protester argues that the agency conducted a flawed cost realism evaluation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFTOP on July 10, 2015, to all firms holding a contract under the Air Force's Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/lQ) contract, which is set