Decision Released: DOD NSIN Intelligence and Cyber Operations Solutions and Services protest denial

Digest

1. Protest challenging evaluation of proposals is denied where the record demonstrates that the evaluation was reasonable, consistent with the solicitation, and did not result from unequal treatment of proposals.
2. Protest alleging that awardee gained an unfair competitive advantage based on employment of a former government official is denied where the record shows that the individual did not have access to non‑public, competitively useful information and was not involved in the drafting of the solicitation or the awardee’s proposal.

Discussion

The protester raises numerous challenges to the agency’s evaluation of proposals under the technical and management approach, ICON project scenario, and key personnel and project staffing factors, contending variously that the agency’s evaluation was unreasonable, inconsistent with the TOR, or the result of unequal treatment. Additionally, the protester contends that ManTech gained an unfair competitive advantage through its hiring of the former Navy principal cyber adviser (PCA) and should have been disqualified from the competition. We have reviewed the record and conclude that there is no basis on which to sustain the protest. We discuss several representative examples of the protester’s arguments below …

Decision

Parsons Government Services Inc., of Centreville, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc., of Herndon, Virginia, under task order request (TOR) No. 47QFCA24R0006, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for intelligence and cyber operations solutions and services for multiple projects in support of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) and NSIN’s mission partner network. The protester contends that the agency improperly evaluated proposals, performed an unreasonable best-value tradeoff, and failed to properly consider whether ManTech had an unfair competitive advantage due to the hiring of a former government official.

We deny the protest.

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