Decision released in protest denial of Army MICC’s Cyber Center of Excellence (CCoE) IT Support requirement

DIGEST

Protest challenging agency’s evaluation of protester’s proposal and its elimination from the competitive range is denied where the record shows that the agency’s actions were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable statutes and regulations.

DISCUSSION

KMS raises multiple challenges to the evaluation of its proposal under the technical approach factor, and also challenges the agency’s decision to eliminate its proposal from the competitive range.  We have reviewed all of KMS’s allegations, and find that none provides us with a basis to sustain the protest.4  We note at the outset that, in reviewing a protest challenging an agency’s evaluation of proposals, our Office does not reevaluate proposals, or substitute our judgment for that of the agency, as the evaluation of proposals is a matter within the agency’s discretion.  22nd Century Technologies, Inc., B-413210, B-413210.2, Sep. 2, 2016, 2016 CPD ¶ 306 at 8.  Rather, we review the record only to determine whether the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement statutes and regulations.  Id.    KMS asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal as technically unacceptable for failing to provide an approach to managing and administering OpenStack.  KMS contends that the RFP did not require offerors to address OpenStack specifically but, rather, only required offerors to address how they would manage and administer virtual technologies generally…

DECISION

Koniag Management Solutions, LLC (KMS), a small business of Chantilly, Virginia, protests its exclusion from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124923R0002, issued by the Department of the Army for information technology (IT) support services. KMS asserts that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal and improperly eliminated it from the competitive range. We deny the protest.

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