File: B-420860.4; B-420860.5; B-420860.6<\/p>\n
Digest<\/p>\n
Protest challenging the agency\u2019s evaluation of proposed professional employee compensation plans and cost realism is sustained where the record does not demonstrate that the agency conducted an evaluation in accordance with the solicitation.<\/p>\n
Discussion<\/p>\n
The protester raises a number of challenges to the agency\u2019s evaluation and best-value tradeoff. Many of these challenges focus on the exchanges between the offerors and the Air Force during corrective action and the resulting evaluation of professional employee compensation and cost realism.[4] As discussed below, we find that the Air Force\u2019s evaluation in those regards was inconsistent with the solicitation and the best-value decision premised on those evaluations was therefore unreasonable and sustain the protest on that basis.[5]\n
BAE challenges the agency\u2019s reevaluation of costs in response to our decision resolving the earlier protests of Guidehouse and Jacobs. The protester alleges that Guidehouse submitted a revised cost proposal that contradicted and abandoned material aspects of what Guidehouse included in its technical capability and mission capability volumes–areas the agency had not allowed offerors to revise when it implemented its corrective action. Comments at 5-21. The protester argues that Guidehouse violated the \u201ccorrective action ground rules\u201d and Guidehouse\u2019s proposal, thus, should have been found to be unacceptable. Id. at 5-6. In addition, the protester contends that the agency\u2019s professional employee compensation and cost realism evaluations were unreasonable because they failed to consider the fact that Guidehouse\u2019s cost proposal was inconsistent with its technical capability and mission capability proposals. Id. at 22\u201132 \u2026<\/p>\n
Decision<\/p>\n
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of an integration support services contract to Guidehouse LLP, of Falls Church, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8207-21-R-0001. The Department of the Air Force issued the solicitation for systems engineering and integration services in support of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) organization. BAE Systems challenges the agency’s evaluation of professional employee compensation plans, cost realism, and the resulting award decision.<\/p>\n
We sustain the protest.<\/p>\n