Matter of Immersion Consulting, LLC Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: May 18, 2018 Released: June 19, 2018 Keywords: Proposal Evaluation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An agency evaluation must hold the offerors to the solicitation’s stated requirements. When evaluating proposals, sweeping language providing assurances of compliance with the solicitation requirements is insufficient. Where language from
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
Matter of: ORBIS Sibro, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition:Protest Sustained in Part, Denied in Part Keywords: Cost Realism, Cost Evaluation Decided:February 26, 2018 Published: March 15, 2018 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A cost realism analysis may properly include adjusting labor rates to make them consistent with proposed labor categories. It may not, however, adjust costs to
Matter of: Transworld Systems, Inc; Account Control Technology, Inc. Agency: Department of the Treasury Disposition:Protest Sustained as to Transworld Systems, Inc. Keywords: Evaluation Criteria; Technical Evaluation Decided:December 22, 2017 Published: February 21, 2018 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Not all protest grounds are discoverable prior to filing a protest. An agency’s inconsistent evaluation of factors results in a protest
Matter of: Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Evaluation Criteria; Proposal Evaluation; Source Selection Decision Decided: January 18, 2017 Released: November 20, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Proposal evaluation and source selection decisions must be consistent between offerors. When the record shows disparate evaluation and the protester is
Matter of: AT&T Corporation Agency: Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Evaluation Criteria; Documentation of Evaluation Decided: October 5, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: It is essential that evaluation and source selection decisions are adequately documented. Where the agency engages in discussions, they must be fair and equitable to all parties
Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: September 13, 2017 Keywords: Evaluations, Proposal Evaluation, Solicitation Requirements, Terms of the Solicitation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Compliance with all terms of the solicitation is absolutely critical to a successful proposal. Failure to address the terms of the solicitation requirements may result in a technically
Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: October 16, 2017 Keywords: Evaluation Criteria, Proposal Evaluation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Agencies are bound not only by the terms and conditions outlined in the RFP, but also federal law. Additionally, an agency’s failure to document the rationale for decisions may result in protests being sustained.
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
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
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
Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: April 26, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Agencies must evaluate proposals consistent with stated evaluation criteria. Agencies must document their evaluations sufficiently, such that a reviewing body understands the process utilized to come to a decision. A failure to adequately document agency determinations
Agency: Department of Defense, United States Transportation Command Disposition: Protest Sustained in Part and Dismissed in Part Keywords: Timeliness of Protest; Evaluation Criteria General Counsel P.C. Highlight: (1) Objections to RFP structure, which may allow offerors to propose unbalanced pricing, must be objected to before the time set for receipt of initial proposals. Subsequent objections
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 Silverback7, Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to Pluribus International Corporation, by the Department of the Army, Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) under a request for task order proposals (RFTOP) for non-personal
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Westar Aerospace & Defense Group, Inc., regarding the issuance of a task order to Aviation & Missile Solutions, LLC (AMS), under a task order request for quotations (TORFQ) issued by the Department of the Army,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Teknion LLC, based on the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Kimball International, Inc., under a request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to supply benching style workstations for FBI
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Housing and Urban Development Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of SAN Business Consultants LLP based on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) award of a contract to Integrated Financial Engineering, Inc. (IFE), under a request for proposals (RFP), for performing the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Total Solutions, Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to PeopleTec, Inc., by the Department of Defense, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), under a request for task order proposals (RTOP) for executive administrative and
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Administrative Office of the United States Courts Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Qwest Government Services, Inc., doing business as CenturyLink QGS, based on the award of a task order to Level 3 Communications, LLC, under a request for task order proposals (RFTOP), issued by
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 State Disposition: Protest sustained. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO sustained the protest of Basic Overnight Quarters, LLC (BOQ) based on the Department of State’s award of contracts to Worldwide Corporate Housing and National Corporate Housing, Inc. (NCH), under a request for proposals (RFP), for long and short-term temporary housing.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. (SAIC) regarding the issuance of a task order to SRA International, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, for information
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protests denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protests of IP Network Solutions, Inc., Emagine IT, Inc., and EnterpriseTech Joint Venture, LLC, regarding the award of four indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contracts to High Action, LLC, Soft Tech Consulting, Inc., Unitech Consulting, LLC d/b/a/ Chameleon Integrated Services,
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 Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Assist Consultants Inc., regarding the evaluation of its proposal submitted in response to a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army for supply and delivery of petroleum fuel products to Afghan
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Information Ventures, Inc., regarding the award of a contract to AlphaTRAC Inc., under a request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes for Health, National
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of International Composites Technologies, Inc. (ICT), based on the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Air Force for ballistic armor systems
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 Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Nas/Corp-Telmah, Inc. (NCTI), regarding the award of a contract to Metro Medical Equipment & Supply, Inc. (Metro Medical), by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under a request for proposals (RFP), for a surgical ophthalmic
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Intelligence Agency Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Enterprise Information Services, Inc. (EIS), regarding the issuance of a task order to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), under a task order request (TOR), which was issued for intelligence analysis support
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 the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Alpha-Omega Change Engineering, Inc. (AOCE), based on the rejection of its proposal and the award of contracts to Intecon, LLC and S4, Inc. under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of