Decision Released: Army Cybersecurity Services protest denial

B-423141

Digest

1. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s staffing plan is denied where the record demonstrates the agency reasonably assessed a strength to the awardee’s staffing plan.
2. Protest challenging agency’s price analysis is denied where the record shows that the price evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.
3. Protest that the agency failed to conduct a proper best-value tradeoff analysis is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency considered the relative merits of the offerors’ proposals in its source selection decision and protester otherwise fails to demonstrate that the tradeoff was unreasonable.

Discussion

PingWind alleges that the Army’s evaluation of Bravura’s staffing plan under the management factor was unreasonable, the agency’s price evaluation was flawed, and the best-value tradeoff was unreasonable.[6] As discussed below, the record reflects that the agency reasonably evaluated proposals and reasonably concluded that Bravura’s proposal was the best value …

Decision

PingWind, Inc. a small business of Annandale, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Bravura Information Technology Systems, Inc., (Bravura), a women-owned, minority-owned, small, disadvantaged business of Aberdeen, Maryland, under task order reference No. 497699, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Contracting Command, for cybersecurity services. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s staffing plan, the price analysis, and best-value tradeoff determination.

We deny the protest.

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