With respect to labor costs, the solicitation provided historical staffing estimates across four broad program areas, but required offerors to identify the labor categories they would use to meet the RFTOP’s requirements. at 265.Īs relevant here, the RFTOP provided that the agency would perform a cost realism analysis in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation § 15.404-1(d), and that the agency would adjust offerors’ proposed costs to the extent the agency found them unrealistic. With respect to the evaluation of cost/price, the RFTOP provided that an offeror’s total evaluated price (TEP) would be calculated by summing the offeror’s proposed FFP for the transition period CLIN, agency-provided plug numbers for the travel reimbursement CLINs, and the offeror’s evaluated costs for the CPFF CLINs. The RFTOP established that selection would be made using a lowest-priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) evaluation scheme, with technical acceptability evaluated under the following three technical subfactors: (1) task order management plan (2) resource allocation plan and (3) transition (phase-in/phase-out planning). Agency Report (AR), Tab 3E, Answers to Offeror Questions, at 1-2. Under the RFTOP, offerors were to assume that the base period would begin on November 25, 2015. The anticipated period of performance for the task order includes a 30-day transition period, 1-year base period, and two 1-year options. The RFTOP contemplated the issuance of a cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) task order, with a firm-fixed-price (FFP) contract line item (CLIN) for a transition period, and cost-reimbursement CLINs for travel. Contracting Officer’s (CO’s) Statement at 1-2, 7. The agency issued the RFTOP on July 10, 2015, to all firms holding a contract under the Air Force’s Engineering and Technology Acquisition Support Services multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract, which is set aside for small businesses. The protester argues that the agency conducted a flawed cost realism evaluation. FA8721-15-D-0010-0003, issued by the Department of the Air Force for engineering and technology acquisition support services. ![]() Abacus Technology Corporation, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to Oasis Systems, LLC, of Lexington, Massachusetts, under request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No.
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