Cost Realism Analysis May Be Used to Assess Risk on Fixed-Price Contract, but Not to Adjust Offerors’ Pricing; GAO B-413464; Harmonia Holdings Group LLC

Protest challenging agency’s best-value award decision is sustained where the record does not show that the source selection authority performed a price/technical best-value tradeoff before concluding that the higher-rated, higher-priced quotation offered the best value to the government.