Matter of WHR Group, Inc. Decided: August 30, 2022 Agency: Department of Justice, FBI Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Technical Evaluation; Source Selection Decision; Best Value Protest Insight This case highlights the fact that, often, filing a bid protest is the only way to uncover the improper basis for an award when an Agency does
Matter of Apprio, Inc. Decided: June 30, 2022 Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Cost Realism; Documentation of Evaluation; Technical Evaluation Protest Insight Generally, cost realism and assessment of unreasonable weakness challenges are rarely successful protest grounds. However, this matter shows that is not an absolute rule. The largest issue for
Matter of: Verizon Business Network Services, Inc. Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest Denied Decided: April 26, 2021 Keywords: Timeliness of Protest, Task Order, Discussions, Technical Evaluation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Protest dismissed where the protester filed a second protest, after the agency took corrective action, with alleging a new basis for protest that
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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