Decision Released: State: Cloud Program Management IT Services Evaluation protest denial

File B-422862.2

Digest

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of quotations is denied where the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law.

Discussion

Tuknik challenges the agency’s evaluation in several respects. First, the protester argues that the agency improperly evaluated Improvix’s quotation as high confidence with respect to Improvix’s transition plan and past performance. Protest at 17-18; Comments at 6-8. Second, the protester contends that the agency erred in evaluating Tuknik’s present and past experience, recruitment and retention capability, and key personnel and staffing.[2] Comments at 2-6. We address these arguments in turn below …

Decision

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a small business of Anchorage, Alaska, challenges the issuance of a task order to Improvix Technologies, Inc., a small business of Reston, Virginia, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19AQMM24Q0049, issued under the General Services Administration’s Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract by the Department of State for cloud program management information technology (IT) services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in evaluating quotations and in the conduct of its best-value tradeoff.

We deny the protest.

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