Decision Released: DISA Endpoint Modernization Services protest denial

File No.  B-422559.2, B-422559.3

Digest

1. Protest challenging the agency’s technical evaluation is denied where the record shows that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria.
2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment by identifying a strength in the awardee’s proposal and not in the protester’s proposal is denied where the difference in strengths was based on differences in the proposals.
3. Protest challenging an agency’s best-value tradeoff determination is denied where the record reflects that the agency’s source selection rationale was consistent with the stated evaluation criteria.

Discussion

The protester challenges various aspects of the agency’s evaluation. NGS argues that the agency should have assessed a strength in its proposal under the program and project management subfactor based on NGS’s helpdesk and hotline experience. The protester also asserts that the agency engaged in disparate treatment by assessing a strength in DSSG’s proposal under the first subfactor, but not in NGS’s proposal. Finally, the protester argues that the agency’s tradeoff decision was flawed, contending that the agency failed to properly consider the price savings NGS’s proposal offered. After reviewing the record, we find no basis to sustain NGS’s protest …

Decision

New Generation Solution, LLC (NGS), a small business of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to DSSG, LLC, a small business of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 832369156, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for endpoint modernization services. NGS challenges the agency’s technical evaluation and source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

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