GAO protests challenging agency’s experience and technical evaluations are denied where protester has not demonstrated that the agency’s evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation.
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GAO protest arguing that the agency erred in declining to consider proposed subcontractors’ experience is dismissed as untimely where the protester did not file its protest with GAO within 10 days of receiving actual notice of adverse agency action on its de facto agency-level protest raised with the agency’s senior procurement executive.
Bid protest that award was tainted by organizational conflicts of interest is denied where the record does not support allegations that the awardee drafted specifications or had access to non-public information that would have provided a competitive advantage, and where the protester’s assertions do not present the hard facts necessary to refute the agency’s conclusion […]
Bid protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of a vendor’s quotation under a key personnel experience requirement is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was conducted in accordance with the terms of the solicitation and did not violate applicable procurement law or regulation.
Protest challenging past performance evaluation of protester’s quotation is denied where error did not competitively prejudice the protester, and the evaluation was otherwise reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
Bid protest challenging the agency’s evaluation under the technical and past performance factors is denied where the record reflects that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
Bid protest alleging that agency conducted unequal discussions during oral presentation portion of the procurement is denied where the exchanges between the agency and the vendors amounted to clarifications and where the awardee did not revise or modify its quotation.
Bid protest challenging award of a federal supply schedule (FSS) task order is sustained where the awardee’s quotation represented that the awardee would provide services exceeding the scope of the underlying FSS contract.
Bid protests challenging the agency’s evaluation of technical quotations are sustained where the record shows that the agency applied unstated evaluation criteria in the evaluation under the key personnel experience and past performance evaluation factors, and where the agency did not adequately document the basis for assigning adjectival ratings for the technical evaluation. […]
1. Agency reasonably assessed a significant weakness in protester’s technical proposal based on protester’s failure to meaningfully address solicitation requirements regarding information security. 2. Agency evaluated technical proposals in a manner that was consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria, which provided for assessing the extent to which proposals balanced the solicitation’s potentially competing objectives of […]
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