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: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems, Inc., regarding the issuance of a task order to L-3 Services, Inc., under a task order request (TOR) issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Systems Integration and Management Center, to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Quest Diagnostics, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Laboratory Corporation of America, Inc. (LabCorp), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army for laboratory testing services. The
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of ABSG Consulting, Inc. (ABSG), a small business, regarding the award of a contract to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, under a request for proposals (RFP)
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of American Apparel, Inc., based on the award of a contract to Bluewater Defense by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), under a request for proposals (RFP), for the manufacture of Army Combat Uniform (ACU)
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 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 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 Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Walsh Investors, LLC, regarding the award of a contract to Fedcar Company Ltd., under a solicitation issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the lease of a healthcare center in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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: Tetra Tech EC, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the agency improperly evaluated the awardee’s proposal is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. General Counsel PC: Tetra Tech EC, Inc. protested
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. Agency: U.S. Army Material Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging evaluation of proposals and price/technical tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows that both were reasonable, consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria, and adequately documented. General Counsel PC: General Dynamics Information Technology,
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Intercomp Company, Inc. Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency failed to consider criteria other than past performance and price is denied where the solicitation required consideration of other criteria only in the event of a tradeoff, and no tradeoff was necessary. General Counsel PC
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: CLS Worldwide Support Services, LLC Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of proposals is denied where the evaluation was reasonably based, consistent with the solicitation criteria, and treated the offerors equally. Protest challenging the source selection authority’s (SSA) conclusion that the advantages in the awardee’s non-cost/price
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Native Resource-Rowe Joint Venture Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Price/technical tradeoff was reasonable where agency determined that protester’s minor technical advantage was not worth the associated additional cost. General Counsel PC Highlight: Native Resource-Rowe Joint Venture (NR-RJV) protested the award to Allied National Services, Inc. of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: J.R. Conkey & Associates, Inc. dba Solar Power Integrators Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where the record shows the evaluation of protester’s proposal was unreasonable and, in making the award decision, the agency conducted a tradeoff only between the three proposals with
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Carothers Construction, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Source selection official reasonably selected higher-rated, higher-priced proposal for award where he identified technical distinctions between proposals and determined that value of advantages associated with higher-rated proposal exceeded the difference in price. General Counsel PC Highlight: Carothers
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Clark/Foulger-Pratt JV Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In a negotiated procurement which provided for award on a best value basis, a source selection official’s (SSA) selection of a lower-priced proposal over a higher rated proposal on the basis that the two offers are essentially technically equal
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest asserting that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the protester’s technical proposal is denied where the record shows the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: DigitalSpec, LLC Agency: Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation and selection decision is denied, where record shows that the agency’s evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation factors General Counsel PC Highlight: DigitalSpec, LLC protested the award
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 Opinion Agency: Defense Threat Reduction Agency Disposition: Protest denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency misevaluated protester’s proposal is denied where record reasonably supports evaluation and protester’s arguments reflect mere disagreement with agency judgments. 2. Agency was not required to attempt to remedy proposal deficiencies through clarifications or discussions because deficiencies rendered
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against issuance of task order is denied where the agency record of its evaluation of quotations was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and the contracting officer appropriately documented the evaluation and best value tradeoff consistent with the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Agency for International Development Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Best Value; Cost/Technical Trade-Off General Counsel P.C. Highlight: It is difficult to prove an awardees price is unrealistically low when it is 11% higher than the first Government estimate and 2% higher than the final government estimate. ————————————————————————————————————————- GAO denies the protest of Symbion Power, LLC-Haytrac,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Cost-Technical Trade-Off General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Even where price is the least important evaluation factor, an agency properly may award a contract to even a lower technically rated firm where it reasonably concludes that the price premium involved in selecting the higher-rated quotation
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Best value, trade-off General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In a best value procurement, it is the function of the Source Selection Authority (SSA) to perform a price/technical tradeoff to determine whether one proposal’s technical superiority is worth a higher price. Even where price is the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Discussions; Trade-off Decision General Counsel P.C. Highlight: During contract negotiations (discussions) under FAR Part 15, an agency may not mislead an offeror–through the framing of a discussion question or a response to a question–into responding in a manner that does not address the agency’s
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Cost/Technical Trade Off General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Mere disagreement with the agency’s determinations as to the relative merit of competing proposals and its judgment as to which proposal offer the best value, does not establish that the valuation or source selection was unreasonable. —————————————————————————————————————————–
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Cost-Technical Tradeoff General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A source selection authority’s final decision on a cost-technical tradeoff must be both fully informed and independently made. —————————————————————————————————————————– Highland Engineering, Inc. (HEI) protests the award of a contract issued by the Department of the Army for lightweight
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Technical evaluation; cost-technical trade-off General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In conducting a price-technical tradeoff, the source selection official has discretion to select a higher-priced, higher technically-rated proposal if doing so is in the government’s best interest, is consistent with the stated evaluation criteria, and is
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Cost Technical Trade-off; Past Performance General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Selection of higher-rated, higher-priced proposal is unobjectionable where the selection official reasonably determined that awardee’s higher technical rating outweighed the protester’s lower price —————————————————————————————————————————– The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued a request for
Link: GAO Opinion Agencies: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Best value, cost-technical trade-off General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: No matter how competent a contractor may be, the technical evaluation must be based on information included within the four corners of the proposal or quote. —————————————————————————————————————————– Through a request for quotations (RFQ) the Department of
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Best value determination; Tradeoff Decision General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: In a best value procurement, the Agency must consider the price of all acceptable offerors, even where the lower priced offeror does not achieve the highest technical rating. —————————————————————————————————————————– Coastal Environments,