Decision Released: Army Defense Integrated Business Systems (DIBS) Portfolio Support Protest Denial

File No. B-422452, B-422452.2, B-422452.3

Digest

1. Protest alleging that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the record shows that the agency’s evaluation was generally reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and, to the extent there were any errors, such errors did not competitively prejudice the protester.
2. Protest that the agency applied an unstated evaluation criterion in evaluating corporate experience by considering the dollar value of corporate experience efforts is denied where the solicitation specifically required offerors to furnish the dollar value of each corporate experience effort and explained that the agency would evaluate examples for similarity to the current effort.

Discussion

Zantech alleges that the agency’s evaluation is flawed in almost every respect. For example, the protester challenges each of the 13 technical weaknesses assigned to its proposal, as well as contesting each of the seven elements of the PWS for which the agency concluded that the protester lacked corporate experience. Supp. Protest at 236. The protester also alleges it should have received eight additional strengths for unacknowledged technical and management related features of its proposal. Protest at 20-23. The protester further challenges the agency’s evaluation of the relevance of its corporate experience submissions and alleges that the agency applied unstated evaluation criteria with respect to corporate experience. Protest at 26-33; Comments and 2nd Supp. Protest at 2-8. Finally, the protester alleges that the agency disparately evaluated substantially identical proposal features as compared to Credence’s proposal. Comments and 2nd Supp. Protest at 15-21, 53-55. As reflected in the representative arguments addressed below, we find no basis on which to sustain the protest …

Decision

Zantech IT Services, Inc., a small business of Tysons Corner, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Credence Management Solutions, LLC, a small business of Vienna, Virginia, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) W519TC-23-R-0070 under the Computer Hardware, Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS), Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-3 Services (ITES-3S) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract issued by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command for technical and program support services for the Defense Integrated Business Systems (DIBS) portfolio. The protester alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation of proposals in various ways.

We deny the protest.

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