Hiring Incumbent Staff: GAO Says You Get What You Pay For

By Amy Conant (May 22, 2017, 3:41 PM EDT) -- The Government Accountability Office's recent decision in A-P-T Research Inc., B-413731.2, April 3, 2017, 2017 CPD ¶ 112, emphasizes the importance of evaluating an offeror's ability to recruit and retain incumbent personnel in the course of a cost realism analysis. This article discusses the GAO's decision in A-P-T and provides a survey of protests over the past two years in which GAO sustained cost realism challenges on this basis....

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