After Considering Supplemental Data Supporting Protester’s Rates, Agency Still Finds Prices Unrealistically Low; GAO B-414719, Applied Research Solutions

Protest challenging the agency’s price realism evaluation is denied, where the solicitation did not require the government to consider specific elements of offerors’ fully burdened labor rates, and where the supporting data submitted by the protestor failed to allay the agency’s concerns that its prices were not realistic.