Matter of AT&T Mobility LLC Decided: May 10, 2022 Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Best Value, Price Evaluation, Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Protest Insight This case is another recent example of GAO sustaining an offeror’s protest, despite being highly deferential to agency evaluations. Here, the protestor was able to demonstrate
Matter of Sabre Systems, Inc. Decided: June 1, 2022 Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Evaluation Criteria, Price Evaluation, Cost Evaluation Protest Insight This case offers guidance on GAO’s interpretation of FAR 52.222-46 and who is considered a “professional employee.” At issue here was the proper interpretation of the provision defining
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: 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 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 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 Decision Protestor: Colt Defense, LLC Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Sustained in part, Denied in part. ______________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the evaluation of offerors’ prices is sustained where the agency failed to follow the solicitation criteria with regard to the application of a 5-percent royalty adjustment to the offerors’ total
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Laboratory Corporation of America Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied _____________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Under solicitation contemplating establishment of fixed-price blanket purchase agreement, protest objecting to agency’s failure to perform realism analysis of successful vendor’s pricing for individual items is denied where the contracting officer reasonably evaluated the awardee’s lower
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Technology Advancement Group, Inc. Agency: United States Marine Corps Disposition: Protest Denied. _________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of an agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s proposed fixed prices is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and in accord with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria. Protest that awardee’s price proposal was unbalanced is denied where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Integrated Science Solutions, Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that an agency misevaluated the protester’s and awardee’s proposals is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation criteria. General Counsel PC Highlight: Integrated Science Solutions, Inc. (ISSi) protested the award to Earth Resources Technology