Link: GAO Decision Protestor: EcoAnalysts, Inc. Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where protester’s proposal, on its face, indicated that it would not comply with subcontracting limitation included in the solicitation, which required that at least 50 percent of the cost of contract performance incurred for personnel be expended for employees
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price Realism; limitation on subcontracting General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO has repeatedly held that the depth of an agency’s price realism analysis is a matter within the sound exercise of the agency’s discretion. GAO’s focus is on whether the agency acted reasonably and in a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price Realism; limitation on subcontracting General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO has repeatedly held that the depth of an agency’s price realism analysis is a matter within the sound exercise of the agency’s discretion. GAO’s focus is on whether the agency acted reasonably and in a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Small business set-aside; Limitation on Subcontracting General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Whether an offeror will meet the limitation on subcontracting requirement is a contract administration issue that GAO will not consider unless the proposal on its face should lead the Agency to conclude that
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging propriety of solicitation provision–stating that offerors must meet requirements under Limitations on Subcontracting (LOS) clause separately for services and supply portions of work under solicitation–is sustained where provision is inconsistent with Small Business Act, which provides for application of