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: 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 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: MVM, Inc. Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably determined that awardee’s comparatively low extended pricing did not pose an unacceptable risk for recruitment and retention where proposed rates for labor categories that made up majority of anticipated effort were near government estimates for those rates
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency improperly accepted awardee’s plan to hire incumbent personnel based on claim that personnel will be unavailable is denied where there is no significant countervailing evidence reasonably known to agency that should or did create doubt as to
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Defense Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price Reasonableness General Counsel P.C. Highlight: The techniques and procedures described under FAR 15.404-1(b) Price Analysis, are generally the primary means of assessing price reasonableness. —————————————————————————————————————————– United Concordia Companies, Inc. (UCCI) protests the award of a contract by the Department of Defense, TRICARE Management Activity,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price Reasonableness General Counsel P.C. Highlight: PJ Helicopters, Inc. protests the determination by the U.S. Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, to exclude its proposal from the competitive range under a request for proposals (RFP) for exclusive-use helicopter fire suppression services at
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Interior, National Park Service Disposition: Protest Sustained in part. Keywords: Price reasonableness; Price realism General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An agency’s concern in making a “price reasonableness” determination focuses primarily on whether the offered prices are higher than warranted. Although not required, an agency may also provide for a “price
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Agriculture Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Price reasonableness; price realism General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO will not re-evaluate proposals in considering a bid protest, but will only consider whether the Agency’s evaluation was reasonable. —————————————————————————————————————————– In October of 2009, the Department of Agriculture issued a request for proposals (RFP) for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency evaluation and source selection decision were flawed where agency made award to higher-rated, significantly higher-priced offeror is denied where record shows that evaluation and source selection decision were reasonable and in accordance with stated evaluation criteria. General Counsel
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: In a procurement for the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 procedures for security guard services, protest that the ordering agency failed to evaluate awardee’s low fixed price to determine whether the awardee had
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s proposal submitted in response to a solicitation issued by the Coast Guard for Fast Response Cutters, B-Class (FRC-B) was reasonably evaluated under an evaluation subfactor as “unsatisfactory,” and subsequently determined to be ineligible for award, where the “unsatisfactory” rating was