Decision Released: DHS ICE Detention Management, Transportation and Food Services Protest Denial

File B-422869

Digest

Protest challenging agency evaluation of protester’s technical proposal and tradeoff decision is denied where the evaluation and tradeoff decision were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

Discussion

BSPS, which is the incumbent contractor for the requirement, challenges the agency’s evaluation of its proposal under the technical approach factor and the agency’s best-value tradeoff and award decision. For the reasons discussed below, we find the protester’s arguments provide no basis to sustain the protest.

The evaluation of an offeror’s proposal is a matter within the agency’s discretion. National Gov’t Servs., Inc., B-401063.2 et al., Jan. 30, 2012, 2012 CPD ¶ 59 at 5. In reviewing protests challenging an agency’s evaluation of proposals, our Office does not reevaluate proposals or substitute our judgment for that of the agency, but rather examines the record to determine whether the agency’s judgment was reasonable and in accord with the stated evaluation criteria and applicable procurement laws and regulations. MicroTechnologies, LLC, B-413091, B-413091.2, Aug. 11, 2016, 2016 CPD ¶ 219 at 4-5. A protester’s disagreement with the agency’s judgment in evaluating proposals or in its determination of the relative merit of competing proposals, without more, does not establish that the evaluation was unreasonable …

Decision

Bering Straits Professional Services, LLC (BSPS), a small business of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the award of a contract to Akima Infrastructure Protection, LLC (AIP), of Herndon, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 70CDCR24R00000008, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for detention management, transportation and food services. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation of its technical proposal and argues that the best-value tradeoff determination was unreasonable.

We deny the protest.

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