Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied Decided: May 1, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: While the source selection advisory council’s (SSAC) report can assist the source selection authority (SSA), the SSA is not bound by the recommendation of the SSAC, provided the SSA’s decision is reasonable, consistent with evaluation criteria, and adequately
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of George G. Sharp, Inc. (Sharp) based on the award of a contract to Global, A 1st Flagship Company (Global), by the Department of the Navy, under a request for proposals (RFP), for inactive ship maintenance and
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied in part, sustained in part. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied in part and sustained in part the protest of Grunley Construction Company, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, protests the award of a contract to Clark Construction Group, LLC, Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No.
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 Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of DynCorp International LLC regarding the award of a contract to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC under a request for proposals (RFP) No. FA3002-11-R-0007, issued by the Department of the Air Force to acquire aircraft
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: Department of the Army Disposition: Protests sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO sustained the protests of Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (MEP), regarding the issuance of two task orders to L-3 STRATIS, under a task order request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army, to acquire intelligence support services
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 Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Mil-Mar Century Corporation regarding the award of a contract to The Entwistle Company, by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command Warren, under a request for proposals (RFP), to provide “Load Handling System Compatible
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of MRI Technologies, regarding the award of a contract to S&K Global Solutions, LLC (SKG), under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), for the Engineering Product Integration
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: meaningful discussions; debriefing; unfair competitive advantage General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Next Tier Concepts, Inc., based on the Department of Agriculture’s issuance of a delivery order to Emagine IT, Inc., under a request for quotations (RFQ), for support services for
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NikSoft Systems Corporation Agency: Department of the Treasury Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably concluded that protester’s responses to agency’s discussions questions introduced risk regarding the level of resources that protester was committing to perform the fixed-price portion of the solicitation requirements. Agency reasonably evaluated protester’s past performance as
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Army Material Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency held defective discussions is denied where agency did not hold discussions with either offeror, did not invite either offeror to revise its proposal, and limited the scope of its communications to
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Contracting officer’s determination that there was no organizational conflict of interest that would preclude an award to the awardee was reasonable where the contracting officer reasonably investigated to see
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: SENTEL Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation and selection decision is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation and selection decision were reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria. Protest that agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions is
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CWTSatoTravel Agency: General Services Administration 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 offerors’ evaluation findings did not result from unequal treatment. Protest that discussions were
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Oklahoma State University Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed in Part; Denied in Part. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of price evaluation is denied where the record indicates that the agency performed a reasonable analysis of offerors’ prices. Where agency conducted discussions with both protester and awardee, identifying specific
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: KPMG LLP Agency: Central Intelligence Agency Disposition: Protest Sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency conducted misleading discussions where it advised protester during discussions that it should provide resumes for all proposed personnel for the lifespan of the contract, but now asserts that the RFP did not require such submission of resumes. Agency
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Tipton Textile Rental, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency misevaluated awardee’s quotation is sustained where solicitation required a barrier wall to achieve physical separation of soiled linens from cleaned linens, and awardee’s quotation failed to comply with this requirement. Under small business
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Unisys Corporation Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s discussions were not misleading where the agency advised the protester that it believed the protester’s proposed staffing was insufficient, further advised the protester that it had provided no justification for the staffing level it proposed,
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: General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Selection of a higher-rated, higher-priced proposal was reasonable where agency found that the awardee’s outstanding technical and staffing approach outweighed the protester’s lower price. Protest alleging that agency held unequal discussions is denied where the
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: AIS Engineering, Inc. Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest Denied in part, Dismissed in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s proposal was reasonably found to be unacceptable where it was evaluated as materially failing to satisfy stated performance and capability requirements. General Counsel PC Highlight: AIS Engineering, Inc. protested the award to
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Environmental Waste Minimization, Inc. Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: Protest that agency misevaluated protester’s proposal is denied where record supports agency’s evaluation conclusions and protest amounts to no more than disagreement with agency’s scoring of proposal. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Environmental Waste Minimization, Inc. (EWM) protested the
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Environmental Quality Management, Inc. Agency: Environmental Protection Agency Disposition: Protest Denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Digest: Protest that agency improperly provided awardees–but not protester–competitively useful information during ongoing acquisition is denied, where awardees were provided appropriate information during initial, pre-award debriefing (after their initial exclusion from the competitive range), and subsequently (after awardees’ readmission
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: ERIE Strayer Company Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency should have requested clarifications from protester is sustained, where the record demonstrates that the agency improperly conducted discussions only with the awardee. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: ERIE Strayer Company protested the award to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest sustained. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Where agency allowed successful vendor to make material revision that made its quotation acceptable, but did not provide protester similar opportunity to revise its quotation, agency improperly engaged in discussions only with successful vendor, and protest on that ground is sustained.
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Standard Communications, Inc. Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency engaged in discussions with the awardee, but not the protester, is sustained where record shows that awardee was permitted to make material changes to its quote that had the effect of rendering its original, technically
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: QinetiQ North America, Inc. Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest based on an alleged violation of the Procurement Integrity Act is denied, where, consistent with Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements, the agency investigated the alleged disclosure of protester’s employees’ resumes to the awardee by a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest challenging agency’s cost realism evaluation of awardee’s proposal is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency’s conclusions were reasonable. 2. Protest that awardee’s cost proposal failed to comply with a material solicitation requirement (a mandated allocation of labor
Link: GAO Opinion Protestor: Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging a source selection authority’s (SSA) disagreement with past performance evaluation rating assigned by lower level evaluators is denied where SSA’s rationale was reasonable, consistent with the evaluation criteria, and documented. Protest challenging evaluation of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Alliant Techsystems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GOA Digest: Protest arguing that agency has improperly precluded price revisions is denied where the underlying basis for the allegation–the protester’s interpretation of the solicitation’s amendments issued in connection with corrective action–is unreasonable. Additional round of discussions, conducted as
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: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Clarifications; Discussions; Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Clarifications are “limited exchanges” between an agency and an offeror for the purpose of eliminating minor uncertainties or irregularities in a proposal, and do not give an offeror the opportunity to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Independent Government Estimate (IGE); meaningful discussions General Counsel P.C. Highlight: When an agency reviews staffing needs it can look at the historical data to determine whether a proposed staffing plan is the best value to the government. —————————————————————————————————————————– GAO denies the protest of