Decision Released: GSA Assisted Service Shared Information System (ASSIST) Modernization and Maintenance Services protest denial

File No.  B-422526, B-422526.2

Digest

Protest challenging agency’s technical evaluation is denied where the agency evaluated the proposals in accordance with the terms of the solicitation.

Discussion

ICF, the incumbent contractor for the instant requirement, challenges the agency’s evaluation of its technical proposal and the agency’s award decision. In particular, the protester maintains that GSA unreasonably assigned weaknesses to its proposal under the technical approach factor and key personnel/project staffing factor. ICF also claims that the agency failed to assign strengths to its proposal under the technical approach, management approach, and key personnel/project staffing factors. For the reasons discussed below, we find none of the protester’s arguments provide a basis to sustain the protest.

The evaluation of proposals in a task order competition, including the determination of the relative merits of proposals, is primarily a matter within the contracting agency’s discretion, because the agency is responsible for defining its needs and the best method of accommodating them. Computer World Servs. Corp., B-420777.2, B420777.3, Feb. 7, 2023, 2023 CPD ¶ 37 at 6. Determinations regarding the magnitude and significance of evaluated strengths and weaknesses are also matters largely within the agency’s discretion, and a protester’s disagreement with the agency’s judgment, without more, does not establish a basis to sustain a protest …

Decision

ICF Incorporated, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT), of Falls Church, Virginia, under task order request (TOR) No. 47QFCA23R0073, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for Assisted Service Shared Information System (ASSIST) modernization and maintenance services. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation and award decision.

We deny the protest.

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