File No. B-422448
Digest
Protest challenging the agency’s exclusion of the protester’s proposal from phase 1 of a competition in which the agency evaluated the past performance, experience, and team structure factor is denied where the protester has not established that the agency’s evaluation was unreasonable or inconsistent with the terms of the solicitation or applicable procurement law and regulation.
Discussion
Tygrove challenges virtually every aspect of the agency’s phase 1 evaluation of its proposal. The protester contends that GSA failed to follow the evaluation criteria and SBA regulations in determining that it was not in the top tier of proposals evaluated in phase 1 to proceed to the phase 2 evaluation. The protester also challenges the phase 1 evaluation of BEAT’s proposal. The parties have raised various arguments, including ones that are in addition to, or variations of, those discussed below. While we do not specifically address every argument, we have fully considered all of them and find that they afford no basis on which to sustain the protest.
Tygrove raises various complaints about GSA’s evaluation of its proposal under the past performance, relevant experience, and team structure factor, including that the evaluation was unreasonable, applied unstated evaluation criteria, and was contrary to the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law and regulation. Protest at 2031. In response, GSA disputes the protester’s claims, noting that the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law and regulation included reviewing Tygrove’s past performance/relevant experience examples and team structure “and appropriately assign[ing] associated risks in accordance with the evaluation criteria set forth in …
Decision
Tygrove Technologies, RLLP, an 8(a) small business joint venture of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology, LLC (BEAT), of San Antonio, Texas, under task order request for proposals (TORFP) No. 47QFNA23R0013, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for information technology support services. The protester was eliminated in phase 1 of the competition and primarily challenges the evaluation of its proposal under the past performance, relevant experience, and team structure factor.
We deny the protest.
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