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Competitive Range – Matter of: Pinnacle Solutions, Inc.

  • August 25, 2017
  • Competitive RangeEvaluationsUncategorizedUnstated Evaluation Criteria
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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

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Matter of: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

  • June 7, 2017
  • Meaningful DiscussionsSource Selection DecisionUnstated Evaluation Criteria
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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

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Basic Overnight Quarters, LLC, B-406964; B-406964.2, October 9, 2012

  • September 3, 2013
  • Experience of ContractorUnstated Evaluation Criteria
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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.

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IP Network Solutions, Inc.; Emagine IT, Inc.; EnterpriseTech Joint Venture, LLC, B-408232; B-408232.2; B-408232.3; B0408232.4; B-408232.5; B-408232.6, July 25, 2013

  • August 16, 2013
  • Technical AcceptabilityUnstated Evaluation Criteria
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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,

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Caduceus Healthcare, Inc., B-407791, February 21, 2013

  • March 20, 2013
  • Technical EvaluationUnstated Evaluation Criteria

Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Army Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Caduceus Healthcare, Inc., based on the rejection of its proposal as unacceptable under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Army, for medical services. Caduceus challenges the agency’s technical evaluation of

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Department of the Navy–Reconsideration, B-405664.3, May 17, 2012

  • February 27, 2013
  • ReconsiderationUncategorizedUnequal Treatment of OfferorsUnstated Evaluation Criteria

Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Navy Disposition:  Request denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO denies the request of the Department of the Navy for reconsideration of its decision in BAE Systems Technology Solutions and Services, Inc., B-405664; B-405664.2, Dec. 12, 2011, in which GAO sustained BAE’s protest against the award of a contract to

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Computer World Services Corporation, B-407783, February 15, 2013

  • February 20, 2013
  • Past PerformanceRelevancy of Past PerformanceUnstated Evaluation Criteria

Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Defense Administration Systems Agency Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight:  GAO denied the protest of Computer World Services Corporation (CWS), regarding the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) award of a contract to Vykin Corporation, under a request for proposals (RFP), for networking information support for the Multinational Information Sharing Program

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Walsh Investors, LLC, B-407717; B-407717.2, January 28, 2013

  • January 30, 2013
  • Cost-Technical Trade-OffMisleading DiscussionsUnstated Evaluation Criteria
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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.

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Colt Defense, LLC, B-406696, July 24, 2012

  • December 5, 2012
  • Price EvaluationUnstated Evaluation Criteria

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

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Orion Technology, Inc.; Chenega Integrated Mission Support, LLC, B-406769, B-406769.2, B-406769.5, August 22, 2012

  • October 17, 2012
  • Unstated Evaluation Criteria

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Orion Technology, Inc.; Chenega Integrated Mission Support, LLC Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protests Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where record shows that agency mechanically and unequally applied undisclosed staffing estimates in evaluating the offerors’ proposed staffing plans to determine whether proposals were acceptable or unacceptable. General Counsel

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DRS ICAS, LLC, B-401852.4; B-401852.5, September 8, 2010

  • December 2, 2010
  • Proposal EvaluationTechnical EvaluationTerms of the SolicitationUnstated Evaluation Criteria

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Technical Weaknesses; Technical Evaluation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In a challenge to the Agency’s evaluation, the GAO will not substitute its own judgment for that of the agency, but will question the agency’s conclusions where they are inconsistent with the solicitation criteria, undocumented, or

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MINACT, Inc., B-400951, March 27, 2009

  • March 27, 2009
  • Unstated Evaluation Criteria

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Labor Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that evaluation improperly included undisclosed criteria concerning milestones for meeting Job Corps Center capacity and compensation sufficient to attract and retain personnel is denied, where both matters were clearly encompassed by solicitation evaluation provisions. Evaluators’ decision not to raise protester’s evaluation

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Computer Cite, B-400830, February 3, 2009

  • February 3, 2009
  • CCR RegistrationUnstated Evaluation Criteria

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition:  Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that award is improper because awardee’s parent company is not registered in the Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database is denied since there is no requirement in the Federal Acquisition Regulation that a potential contractor’s parent company be registered in

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