Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Material Misrepresentation; Price Realism Analysis General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The protester alleges that the awardee made a material misrepresentation in its proposal by including the name of a key subcontractor without the subcontractor’s consent and with whom protester had
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of FCN, Inc., regarding the award of a contract to RGS Federal, Inc., by the Air National Guard (ANG), under a request for proposals (RFP), for a mass notification system/net-centric alerting system for the ANG. The
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: LPTA, PIA, price realism General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Phoenix Management, Inc. based on the award of a contract to Alliance Technical Services, Inc. (ATS), under a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Air
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 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 Opinion Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of ValidaTek, Inc., based on the Department of State’s (DOS) issuance of a task order to Zolon Tech, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP) for information technology support services. Participation in the competition was restricted to
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 Decision Protestor: Strategic Resources, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest alleging that the awardee’s proposal violated the solicitation’s unclear proposal font requirement is denied where the protester’s proposal does not comply with its own interpretation of the requirement. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the offerors’
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Global Protection Group Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest contending that award decision was unreasonable because awardee’s price was unrealistically low and the awardee lacked relevant past performance is denied, where solicitation did not require a realism analysis for this fixed-price contract and record shows
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: A&T Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of an agency’s technical evaluation is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee’s proposal consistent with the solicitation’s stated criteria. Protest that the awardee’s price is too low under a solicitation that did not provide
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: Science Applications International Corporation Agency: Defense Intelligence Agency Disposition: Protest Sustained in part, Denied in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly evaluated awardee’s technical proposal is sustained where the record shows that the agency did not reasonably consider the awardee’s proposed technical approach, which included using “large numbers” of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: SoniTech NDT Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In a negotiated procurement for a fixed-price purchase order, protest that the successful vendor’s price is unrealistically low is denied where the solicitation did not provide for the evaluation of price realism. Protest objecting to the agency’s evaluation
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Science Applications International Corporation Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In a fixed-price procurement which reserved an agency’s right to conduct a price realism analysis if necessary, the agency reasonably found the awardee’s price realistic and reasonable. General Counsel PC Highlight: Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Emergint Technologies, Inc. Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is sustained where solicitation for the issuance of a fixed-price time-and-materials task order did not provide for a price realism evaluation, yet the agency discounted the protester’s lower price in its best value tradeoff
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Lifecycle Construction Services, LLC Agency: Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly rejected protester’s proposal as unreasonably low priced is sustained where the agency based its conclusion on a comparison of the protester’s price to the median price proposed by other
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: R3 Government Solutions LLC Agency: United States Coast Guard Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s technical evaluation is denied where the record reflects that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with solicitation terms. Protest that agency failed to perform a price realism evaluation as required by solicitation is
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: TMCP Health Services LLC Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is denied where the agency’s comparison and confirmation of the offerors’ proposed prices constituted a reasonable price realism analysis that was consistent with the terms of the solicitation. General Counsel PC: TCMP Health Services LLC
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: TriWest Healthcare Alliance Corporation Agency: Office of TRICARE Management Disposition: Protests Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where record shows that agency’s evaluation and source selection were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Beyel Brothers, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that the awardee’s proposed fuel price was unrealistically low fails to state a valid basis for protest where the solicitation provided for the award of fixed-price contract and did not provide for a price realism analysis.
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: EMR, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly coerced protester to raise its labor rates and overall price, by advising during discussions that specific labor rates appeared to be low in relation to other offerors, and represented a weakness, is denied
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Phair Security Solutions, Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s determination that the awardee’s proposal represented the best value to the government is unobjectionable where the agency’s determination and selection were consistent with the terms of the solicitation and reasonably based. Agency’s evaluation of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Planned Systems International, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably evaluated offerors’ fixed prices by performing comparisons of proposed individual labor rates and total evaluated prices, consistent with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the provisions of the solicitation, and was not required to
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Resource Ltd. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where solicitation contemplated award of fixed-price contract, price realism analysis was reasonable where agency compared proposed prices to independent government estimate and other proposed prices, and ensured that prices reflected a complete understanding of the requirement. Protest
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Rust Consulting, Inc. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against price realism evaluation of awardees’ proposals is denied where the agency determined that the awardees’ lower proposed labor hours reflected their technical approaches and were not so low as to present a performance risk, and where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CC Distributors, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest Agency reasonably evaluated the awardee’s past performance as excellent/high confidence, where agency considered the awardee’s and its proposed subcontractor’s history of relevant past performance and the positive comments made by the awardee’s references regarding its past
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: General Dynamics, American Overseas Marine Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly did not evaluate fixed-price proposals for price realism where the solicitation did not provide for such an evaluation. Agency properly did not consider in its price evaluation the protester’s proposed cost savings with
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Digital Technologies, Inc. Agency: Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency Disposition: Protest Sustained. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s price realism evaluation is sustained where agency failed to consider proposed prices from all offerors in its analysis (as required by the terms of the solicitation) and agency’s rationale for finding protester’s
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s determination that the awardee’s fixed price was realistic is denied, where the agency compared the awardee’s low price to the government’s cost estimate and concluded that the awardee’s pricing assumptions
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: People’s Accident Information Service, Inc., d/b/a Securit Agency: Smithsonian Institution Disposition: Protest Denied. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency improperly failed to evaluate offerors’ proposed prices to determine whether they understood the requirements of the solicitation is denied where the protester fails to allege or demonstrate that there were technical weaknesses
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Advanced Construction Techniques, Inc. Agency: Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of agency’s technical evaluation is denied where protester fails to show that weaknesses attributed to its proposal were unreasonable. Notwithstanding the lack of a specific “price realism” evaluation factor, source selection authority’s
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest of alleged improprieties apparent on face of task order solicitation, filed after issuance of the task order, is dismissed as untimely under GAO’s Bid Protest Regulations. 2. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the competitors’ proposals, based primarily on the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price Realism; limitation on subcontracting General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO has repeatedly held that the depth of an agency’s price realism analysis is a matter within the sound exercise of the agency’s discretion. GAO’s focus is on whether the agency acted reasonably and in a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Experience; past performance; price realism analysis General Counsel P.C. Highlight: There is nothing unreasonable with establishing different experience evaluation criteria for the prime and sub, and price realism analysis is within the sound exercise of the agency’s discretion. —————————————————————————————————————————– Y&K Maintenance, Inc. (Y&K)