Agency’s Cost Realism Analysis Failed to Meaningfully Evaluate Offerors’ Labor Rates And Plan To Capture Incumbent Personnel; GAO B-414844.4, ENSCO, Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of cost proposals is sustained, where the agency based its cost adjustments on rates verified by DCAA but did not adjust any rates that were not verified by DCAA, and where the agency did not consider the effect of the awardee’s low labor rates on its plan to retain incumbent personnel.