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B-271302 1 (1996-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaedu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ' ITV' 43573 Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Allied Technology Group, Inc. File: B-271302; B-271302.2 Date: July 3, 1996 Donald G. Featherstun, Esq., Mitchell H. Segal, Esq., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, for the protester. James J. Regan, Esq., Paul Shnitzer, Esq., and Bennett J. Matelson, Esq., Crowell & Moring, and Paul K. Milmed, Esq., White & Case, for Weiss Associates, the intervenors. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., and Patrick M. Burke, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Technical evaluation of proposals for environmental restoration and related services is unobjectionable where it is reasonably based and consistent with the evaluation criteria and protester's identification of alleged evaluation flaws lacks any support in the record. 2. Where solicitation provides specified level of effort and skill mix, agency's cost evaluation consisting primarily of analysis of direct labor rates is reasonable. Exclusion of certain subcontractor costs from agency's most probable cost analysis is reasonable where costs were insubstantial and solicitation did not call for these costs to be included in calculating proposal cost. DECISION Allied Technology Group, Inc. (ATG) protests the award of a contract to Weiss Associates under request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-RP03-95SF20686, issued by the Department of Energy for environmental restoration, decontamination and decommissioning, and waste management activities at the Laboratory for Energy Related Health Research (LEHR) and other selected sites in California. ATG contends that Energy's evaluation of the proposals was flawed, its cost evaluation was inadequate, and that the source selection official (SSO) failed to exercise his independent judgment. We deny the protests.