Decision Released: DHS Cybersecurity Governance and Compliance protest denial

File B-423083.3

Digest

Protest challenging the scope of the agency’s corrective action taken in response to previous post-award protests is dismissed as legally insufficient where the protester’s allegations are based on impermissible speculation or a facially unreasonable interpretation of the solicitation’s evaluation scheme.

Discussion

The protester raises two principal challenges to the scope of the agency’s proposed corrective action in this protest. First, the protester alleges that because the agency ostensibly identified concerns with its evaluation of Delviom’s quotation under the corporate experience factor, the agency must have necessarily committed similar errors in the evaluation of other vendors’ experience and, therefore, the agency should commit to conducting a more far-reaching reevaluation of quotations. B-423083.3, Dkt. 1, Protest, at 3. Second, SOFITC3 largely repeats its objection that the agency is not permitted to reevaluate corporate experience under the phase 2 evaluation while “ignor[ing] the knock-on effects of that different Phase 2 evaluation on subsequent phases.” Id. at 4. In this regard, the protester contends that if “Delviom proposed no relevant prime contractor experience” then “[r]ejection of its proposal [sic] would be appropriate…”

Decision

SOFITC3, LLC, a small business of Piscataway, New Jersey, protests the scope of the agency’s proposed corrective action announced in response to SOFITC3’s previous protest challenging the issuance of a task order to Delviom, LLC, a small business of Ashburn, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70RTAC24Q00000089, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for cybersecurity governance and compliance.

We dismiss the protest because, as filed with our Office, it does not establish a valid basis for challenging the scope of the agency’s proposed corrective action.

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