Matter of Tech Marine Business, Inc. Decided: October 14, 2022 Agency: Department of Justice, FBI Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Technical Evaluation; Source Selection Decision; Best Value Protest Insight This case showcases GAO’s analysis of challenges that an agency failed to properly award a strength or weakness to a proposal. Here, GAO emphasized the importance
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 Marquis Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained Decided: September 14, 2021 Keywords: Best-Value Tradeoff Basis, Documentation of Evaluation; Source Selection Decision General Counsel, P.C. Protest Insight This protest is notable because it showcases that, although the GAO is highly deferential to Agency evaluations, the GAO does find unreasonable evaluations.
Matter of: Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Sustained Keywords: Evaluation Criteria; Proposal Evaluation; Source Selection Decision Decided: January 18, 2017 Released: November 20, 2017 General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Proposal evaluation and source selection decisions must be consistent between offerors. When the record shows disparate evaluation and the protester is
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
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: United States Coast Guard Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Phoenix Group of Virginia, Inc., regarding the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the McHenry Management Group, under a request for quotations (RFQ), issued by the United States Coast Guard for marine engineering
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denies the protest of Wyle Laboratories, Inc., based on the issuance of a task order to Imagine One Technology & Management, Ltd., under a task order request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Building Operations Support Services (BOSS), LLC, based on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) award of a contract to Chugach Federal Solutions, Inc., under a request for proposals (RFP) for facilities operations and
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: The Clay Group, LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Sustained. ________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s procurement of bathroom paper products is sustained where the record reflects that the evaluation methodology utilized by the agency was inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation relating to the relative importance of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: SGT, Inc. Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. ____________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency misevaluated awardee’s proposal is denied where record shows that agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation scheme. Protest that agency disparately evaluated awardee’s and protester’s proposals is denied where record shows