Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Unstated evaluation criteria, competitive range. Decided: May 19, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Evaluations must not rely on unstated evaluation criteria. When assessing the competitive range, evaluation must be on specific aspects of a proposal, not based on point scores or adjectival ratings. Summary of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Global Technology Systems, Inc. (GTS) regarding its exclusion from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP) for high capacity batteries, issued by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), a component of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of KAES Enterprises, LLC based on its exclusion from the competitive range, under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for generator maintenance services. The RFP
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO sustained the protest of Global Dynamics, LLC (GD) regarding the exclusion of its proposal from competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army for registered nursing services for the San Antonio Military
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of e-Management, based on the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), for enterprise architecture
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 Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive Range; Prejudice General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Smith Enterprise, Inc. regarding the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy for research and development services
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Crown Agents USA, Inc., regarding the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to obtain
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Kaseman, LLC, based on the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Army, for services in support of the agency’s Logistics Civil
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Agency for International Development Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of the Louis Berger Group, Inc., based on the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Sterling Medical Associates, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of the exclusion of the protester’s proposal from the competitive range is denied where an agency reasonably found that the protester’s proposal did not have a reasonable possibility of being selected for award. General Counsel
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: IAP World Services, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging contracting agency’s evaluation of protester’s proposal and its exclusion from the competitive range is denied where agency’s evaluation and competitive range determination were reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria. General Counsel
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: All Phase Services, Inc. Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where the agency found that the proposal was technically unacceptable and would require major revisions to be made acceptable. General Counsel PC: All Phase Services, Inc. protested its
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Main Building Maintenance, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of agency evaluation and determination to exclude protester’s revised proposal from the competitive range is denied where protester fails to show that either was unreasonable. General Counsel PC Highlight: Main Building Maintenance, Inc. (MBM) protested
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NSR Solutions, Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest objecting to exclusion of proposal from competitive range is denied where agency reasonably determined that proposal failed to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of, and sound approach to meeting, solicitation requirements, and thus was unacceptable. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: The Dixon Group, Inc. Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s exclusion of protester’s quotation from further consideration for a procurement using the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 is denied, where the record shows
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: MicroTechnologies, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency used unstated evaluation criteria in evaluating offerors’ responses to sample task orders is denied where agency consideration of whether responses addressed the specific tasks necessary for successful performance of the overall sample tasks was reasonably
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: DRIVE Developments, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s evaluation of the protester’s proposal as “adequate” under two of the solicitation’s evaluation factors, and elimination of the protester’s proposal from the competitive range, are unobjectionable, where the evaluation was consistent with the terms of the
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Digicon Corporation; Intelligent Decisions, Inc. Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: The agency reasonably excluded the protesters’ proposals from the competitive range where the proposals failed to demonstrate, within the solicitation’s identified page limitations, that the protesters satisfied the solicitation’s technical understanding and capability
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Ocean Services, LLC Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where the agency found that the proposal was technically unacceptable and would require major revisions to be made acceptable. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Ocean
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive range; source selection plan General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A poorly written protest that fails to properly argue the facts and law will not be sustained where the record indicates the agency’s action were reasonable. —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO denies the protest of WingGate Travel, Inc.,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive range; source selection plan General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A poorly written protest that fails to properly argue the facts and law will not be sustained where the record indicates the agency’s action were reasonable. —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO denies the protest of Globecomm Systems, Inc.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive Range General Counsel P.C. Highlight: If there is no reasonable possibility that a proposal will be considered amount the highest rather offers the GAO is not going to sustain a protest absent a very clear showing that the agency acted unreasonably. —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive Range General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The agency is required to follow its announced evaluation methodology and an offeror can’t read additional requirements into the RFP regarding realism of price. ——————————————————————————– GAO denies the protest of Luke & Associates, Inc., where its
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Competitive Range Determination General Counsel P.C. Highlight: OLBN Architectural Service, Inc. protests the evaluation and subsequent non-selection of its qualification statement for negotiation of an architect/engineering (A/E) services contract, pursuant to a solicitation, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied Keywords: Competitive Range Determination General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The determination of whether a proposal is in the competitive range is principally a matter within the judgment of the procuring agency. GAO will review that judgment only to ensure that it was reasonable and in accord
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging exclusion of protester’s proposal from revised competitive range is denied where proposal was both lower rated under technical factor and significantly higher priced than the two proposals included in competitive range; agency reasonably found it had no reasonable chance
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protester’s proposal was reasonably excluded from the competitive range where several sections of the proposal stated that the offered item exceeded the solicitation’s maximum allowable weight. 2. Where two offerors received a technical rating of unacceptable, and only one is
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Interior Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against elimination of protester’s proposal from competitive range is denied where record supports reasonableness of the agency’s evaluation of protester’s proposal as technically unacceptable. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The protester argues that the evaluation of its proposal was unreasonable. GAO
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s challenge to an agency’s decision to exclude the protester’s acceptable proposal from the competitive range is denied where the contemporaneous record shows that, consistent with the requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the proposal was evaluated on all of the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency may not exclude from the competitive range a proposal that has not been determined technically unacceptable without taking into account the proposal’s price. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The protester argues that both the evaluation of its own proposal
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably excluded the protester’s proposal from the competitive range, where the agency reasonably determined that the protester’s proposal contained major and significant weaknesses and deficiencies, such that the proposal was found to be unacceptable, would require major revisions
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s decision to establish a revised competitive range and conduct discussions with small business concerns whose proposals were deemed the most highly rated rather than withdraw the set-aside and reissue the solicitation on an unrestricted basis was reasonable under the circumstances;
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is denied where protester fails to demonstrate that agency’s evaluation of proposal as technically marginal with moderate risk and agency’s exclusion of proposal from revised competitive range on that basis were unreasonable. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Orion protests the exclusion
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest to GAO of the exclusion of the protester’s proposal from the competitive range is untimely filed, where the matter was initially protested to the contracting agency but was not filed with the agency within 10 days of the date that