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
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of CEdge Software Consultants LLC regarding the award of a contract to Vista Technical Services, LLC (VTS), by the Army Contracting Command, Rock Island, IL, under a request for proposals (RFP), for information technology (IT) services.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of FPM Remediations, Inc., based on the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army for environmental remediation services. The RFP was issued
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Contract Services, Inc. (CSI), regarding the award of a contract to ALOG Corporation, under a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Army for administrative and facilities support services at Fort Riley,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Celtech Corporation, based on the Department of the Air Force’s award of a contract to Atec, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), a competitive small business set-aside for repair support of engine test
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Halfaker and Associates, LLC, regarding the issuance of a task order to Native Hawaiian Veterans, LLC (NHV), by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, under a task order
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of WingGate Travel, Inc., regarding the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Human Resource Activity’s award of a contract to Semont Travel, doing business as Travco, under a request for proposals (RFP), for travel management services to support
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of PAE Government Services, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy for base operating
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Coast Guard Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Phoenix Group of Virginia, Inc., regarding the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the McHenry Management Group, under a request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the United States Coast Guard for marine engineering
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Burke Consortium, Inc., based on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) decision not to award Burke a contract under a request for proposals (RFP) for information technology services. The RFP provided for multiple awards of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Pragmatics Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under a request for proposals (RFP) for National Ground Intelligence Center
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Wyle Laboratories, Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to Imagine One Technology & Management, Ltd., under a task order request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protests of Palmetto GBA, LLC, and CGS Administrators, LLC, based on the award of a contract to Noridian Administrative Services, LLC, under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of NANA Services, LLC, regarding the award of a contract to the Hawaii Department of Human Services, DBA Ho’opono Rehabilitation Center for the Blind, of Honolulu, Hawaii, a state licensing agency (SLA) for the blind, under
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: best value; tech eval General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Exelis Systems Corporation, based on the issuance of a task order to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC, under a request for task order proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Building Operations Support Services (BOSS), LLC, based on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) award of a contract to Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP) for facilities operations and
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: ERC Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that source selection authority’s (SSA) selection decision was improper is denied where the record shows the SSA conducted an extensive examination of the qualitative merits of proposals in finding them essentially equal under two evaluation factors,
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: KinetX Aerospace, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation of technical and cost proposals and selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency’s evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Castle-Rose, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s challenge to agency’s evaluation of its proposal is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with terms of solicitation. General Counsel PC Highlight: Castle-Rose, Inc. protested the award to Kevcon, Inc. of a
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Six3 Systems, Inc. Agency: Defense Intelligence Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals is denied where record reflects that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation’s evaluation criteria and that differences in evaluation did not result from unequal treatment. Agency decision not to
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Emergint Technologies, Inc. Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where solicitation for the issuance of a fixed-price time-and-materials task order did not provide for a price realism evaluation, yet the agency discounted the protester’s lower price in its best value tradeoff
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Supreme Foodservice GmbH Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s assignment of highest possible experience/past performance rating to awardee’s proposal under size and complexity evaluation element is sustained where solicitation called for comparison of offerors’ most relevant prior contracts to a defined dollar threshold, on
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Glotech, Inc. Agency: United States Agency for International Development; General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency failed to meaningfully consider price in issuing blanket purchase agreements under Federal Supply Schedule program involving a maximum of $900 million in orders is sustained where the record shows that
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: William J. Brant, Jr. & Associates Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s technical evaluation of protester’s proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. General Counsel PC Highlight: William
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Cyberdata Technologies, Inc. Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s argument that its technically acceptable quotation was excluded from the competition without consideration of price in a best value acquisition for the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) is sustained where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Metropolitan Interpreters and Translators, Inc. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that discussions were unequal, misleading, and not meaningful is denied because the agency was not required to discuss areas of protester’s proposal that were not considered a significant weakness or deficiency and the discussions did
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: DNO Inc. Agency: Small Business Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest challenging agency decision not to set aside for small business concerns a contract for a pilot program to compile a list of approved fruit and vegetable vendors for domestic food nutrition assistance programs is sustained where agency’s
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Gonzales-Stoller Remediation Services, LLC Agency: Department of Energy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s challenges to the agency’s evaluation of its proposal constitute mere disagreements with the agency’s judgments and provide no bases for sustaining the protest where the agency, in accordance with the stated evaluation criteria, reasonably and equally
Link: GAO Decision Protestor:Paladin Data Systems Corporation Agency: Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of issuance of a task order to a lower-cost, lower-rated firm was reasonable and consistent with evaluation scheme in which cost/price was the least important evaluation factor, where the agency reasonably determined
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corp. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Sustained. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: 1. Agency request that protest be dismissed on the basis that the protester is not an interested party due to an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied, where the agency has not shown its OCI determination is based
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Walbridge Aldinger Company Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s source selection under a solicitation that provided for the award of multiple contracts, and which did not expressly discuss the protester’s and certain of the other offerors’ proposals as compared to the awardees’ proposal, was reasonably
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Advanced Construction Techniques, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of agency’s technical evaluation is denied where protester fails to show that weaknesses attributed to its proposal were unreasonable. Notwithstanding the lack of a specific “price realism” evaluation factor, source selection authority’s
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Recreation Resource Management of America, Inc. Agency: Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In a competition for the award of a concession special use permit for operation and maintenance of government-owned recreation facilities, protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of applications is denied, where the evaluation