Decision Released: State Department Software Development Lifecycle Support Services protest denial

File No. B-423051, B-423051.2

Digest

1. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the protester’s past performance is denied, where the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest alleging disparate treatment is denied where the record reflects that quotations were not substantively indistinguishable from one another.
3. Protest challenging the agency’s best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the protester has not established that the underlying evaluation was unreasonable.

Discussion

Koniag argues that the agency’s evaluation of the protester’s past performance was unreasonable and disparate and, as a result, the agency’s source selection decision was flawed. Protest at 8-10; Comments & Supp. Protest at 8‑10. We have reviewed all of Koniag’s protest grounds and find no basis to sustain the protest.

First, the protester contends that the agency should have assigned Koniag a past performance rating of “substantial confidence,” rather than “satisfactory confidence.” Protest at 8. The agency responds that it properly evaluated Koniag’s past performance …

Decision

Koniag Management Solutions, Inc., of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the issuance of a task order to ASRC Federal Highland Technology (ASRC), of Beltsville, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 19AQMM24Q0007, issued by the Department of State (DOS) for software development lifecycle support services. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation of Koniag’s past performance, as well as the source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

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