Differences in Agency’s Evaluation of Cost-Reimbursable Labor Rates with Fixed Ceiling Rates Not Evidence of Disparate Treatment; GAO B-415218, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.; Altamira Technologies Corporation

Protest arguing that the awardee failed to provide pricing for all its proposed subcontractors is denied, where the solicitation required pricing only for subcontractors proposed to perform the required level of effort identified in the pricing matrix; and protest alleging disparate treatment is denied, where the agency reasonably upwardly adjusted the protester’s labor rates because it failed to adequately support the rates, and did not adjust the awardee’s subcontractors’ rates because they were fixed ceiling rates; and protest that the agency failed to engage in meaningful discussions is denied, where the agency found the protester’s overhead rates to be fair and reasonable and therefore was not required to address them.