Agency Not Required to Lower Rates Outside Standard Deviation of Average; COFC No. 18-1563, Indigo IT LLC v. United States and FEDITC LLC

Protest challenging the agency’s cost evaluation and upward adjustment to certain of the protester’s direct and indirect rates is denied, where the solicitation permitted the agency to review an offeror’s rates for realism, even if they fell within one standard deviation of the average and were initially presumed realistic.