Agency: Department of Defense, United States Transportation Command Disposition: Protest Sustained in Part and Dismissed in Part Keywords: Timeliness of Protest; Evaluation Criteria General Counsel P.C. Highlight: (1) Objections to RFP structure, which may allow offerors to propose unbalanced pricing, must be objected to before the time set for receipt of initial proposals. Subsequent objections
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Cyberdata Technologies, Inc. Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protester’s argument that its technically acceptable quotation was excluded from the competition without consideration of price in a best value acquisition for the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) is sustained where
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Millennium Space Systems, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest Dismissed in Part; Denied in Part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: A debriefing provided in a procurement conducted as a Broad Agency Announcement pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 6.102(d)(2) and FAR § 35.016 does not fall within the exception
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Qwest Government Services, Inc. Agency: Department of the Interior Disposition: Protest Denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s assessment of risk in the protester’s price proposal was reasonable where the protester based its price on assumptions that were not stated in the solicitation. Protest challenging the evaluation of the protester’s technical proposal is
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: CH2M Hill Antarctic Support, Inc. Agency: National Science Foundation Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the assignment of an evaluation rating for the protester’s technical proposal is denied where the rating was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. Exchanges with the awardee were clarifications, and not
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Estrategy, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied in part and Dismissed in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly cancelled solicitation where the agency could not determine that any of the offerors’ proposed prices, which significantly exceeded the government estimate, were fair and reasonable. Protests of the terms of
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 Labor Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Timeliness of Protest General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A protester may not passively await information providing a basis for protest. Rather, a protester has an affirmative obligation to diligently pursue such information and a protester’s failure to utilize the most expeditious information-gathering approach under the circumstances may
Agencies: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Dismissed Keywords: Terms of the solicitation; time for filing General Counsel, P.C. Highlight: Any challenge to the terms of a solicitation as being overly restrictive must be filed prior to the time for receipt of proposals. —————————————————————————————————————————– Esterhill Boat Services Corporation provided leased space to the Department of Veterans
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of award that was filed more than 10 calendar days after receipt during business hours of the agency’s email notification of award is untimely; for purposes of our timeliness rules, the mechanical receipt of an email during regular business hours constitutes
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest dismissed in part and denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to make sole-source award to a service-disabled veteran-owned small business concern and impermissibly competed the acquisition on an unrestricted basis is dismissed where the protest was filed after award.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest dismissed in part, denied in part. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Post-award protest challenging agency’s elimination of proposal for region-wide consortium approach that was filed more than 3 months after protester received notice of the proposal’s elimination is not timely where protester received all
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest dismissed. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is dismissed as untimely where it was filed more than 10 days after receipt of a preaward notice identifying the successful vendor, which triggered a telephone call to the contracting officer wherein the protester was told the successful vendor’s
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest is untimely under GAO’s Bid Protest Regulations, where a protest on the same grounds was initially filed at the agency and denied, and filed with GAO more than 10 days after receipt of the denial; the protester’s receipt of a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest dismissed in part, denied in part. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Where agency responded to earlier protest, in which the agency tender official (ATO) challenged the adequacy of the solicitation’s workload information, by stating that it would provide additional workload data, and earlier protest was withdrawn,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest dismissed. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest to GAO of the exclusion of the protester’s proposal from the competitive range is untimely filed, where the matter was initially protested to the contracting agency but was not filed with the agency within 10 days of the date that