Matter of Sparksoft Corporation Decided: June 2, 2023 Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied Keywords: Best Value; Corrective Action Protest Insight This case is an important reminder that even though GAO may sustain a protest and require the agency to take corrective action and reevaluate proposals, the successful protestor may still
Matter of Tech Marine Business, Inc. Decided: October 14, 2022 Agency: Department of Justice, FBI Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Technical Evaluation; Source Selection Decision; Best Value Protest Insight This case showcases GAO’s analysis of challenges that an agency failed to properly award a strength or weakness to a proposal. Here, GAO emphasized the importance
Matter of R&K Enterprise Solutions, Inc. Decided: September 12, 2022 Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Best Value; Cost-Technical Trade-Off Protest Insight This case highlights the considerable deference GAO gives agencies’ technical evaluations and the stark challenges protestors face in overcoming that deference. Since the evaluation of technical proposals is
Matter of WHR Group, Inc. Decided: August 30, 2022 Agency: Department of Justice, FBI Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Technical Evaluation; Source Selection Decision; Best Value Protest Insight This case highlights the fact that, often, filing a bid protest is the only way to uncover the improper basis for an award when an Agency does
Matter of AT&T Mobility LLC Decided: May 10, 2022 Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Best Value, Price Evaluation, Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Protest Insight This case is another recent example of GAO sustaining an offeror’s protest, despite being highly deferential to agency evaluations. Here, the protestor was able to demonstrate
Matter of Marquis Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: September 14, 2021 Keywords: Best-Value Tradeoff Basis, Documentation of Evaluation; Source Selection Decision General Counsel, P.C. Protest Insight This protest is notable because it showcases that, although the GAO is highly deferential to Agency evaluations, the GAO does find unreasonable evaluations.
Matter of: PAE National Security Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: May 19, 2021 Keywords: Attorney’s Fees, Best Value, Bid and Proposal Costs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluations, Experience Requirement, Key Personnel, Remedies, Resumes, Task Orders, Technical Evaluation, Unequal Treatment of Offerors, Unstated Evaluation Criteria General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Protest sustained where the
Matter of Dynaxys LLC Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development Disposition: Protest Sustained In Part Decided: April 18, 2018 Released: May 4, 2018 Keywords: Best Value, Evaluations, General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Evaluation of proposals should be carefully reviewed to determine if strengths awarded are justified. When an agency does not evaluate approaches equally, there may
Agency: Department of Veteran Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: August 25, 2017 Keywords: Evaluations, Price Evaluation, Price Reasonableness General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Agencies must not evaluate the cost of each line item in a vacuum. Rather, the agency must engage in analysis of whether a single high price quote would result in the government paying
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO sustained the protest of Sayres & Associates Corporation, regarding the issuance of a task order to Client Solutions Architects LLC (CSA), by the Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), under a task order request