File No. B-422604,B-422604.2,B-422604.3
Digest
Protest that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis is denied where the record shows the agency evaluated proposals in accordance with the terms of the solicitation and performed a reasonable best-value tradeoff analysis.
Discussion
Sudofy challenges the agency’s evaluation of its own proposal, the evaluation of Atlas’s proposal, and the best-value tradeoff determination. Sudofy asserts that the agency should have assigned its proposal two additional strengths, one under each of the technical understanding subfactors. Sudofy also asserts that the agency unreasonably and unequally assigned strengths to Atlas’s proposal under both the technical understanding subfactors. Finally, Sudofy asserts that the agency’s best-value tradeoff determination is flawed because of the alleged underlying flaws with the evaluation. We have reviewed Sudofy’s arguments and find that none provide us with a basis to sustain the protest.
Where an agency conducts a competition among contractors for the issuance of a task or delivery order under part 16 of the FAR, our Office will review the competition to ensure that it was conducted in accordance with the solicitation and applicable procurement laws and regulations. United Excel Corp., B-415442, Jan. 4, 2018, 2018 CPD ¶ 16 at 6. In that regard, the agency must produce a sufficient record of the competition and source selection to allow for meaningful review of its procurement actions. Id. In reviewing protests of awards in a task order competition, we do not reevaluate proposals but examine the record to determine whether the evaluation and source selection decision are reasonable and consistent with the solicitation’s evaluation criteria and applicable procurement laws and…
Decision
Sudofy, LLC, a small business of Hanahan, South Carolina, protests the issuance of a task order to Atlas Technologies, Inc., also a small business, of North Charleston, South Carolina, under task order request for proposals (TORFP) No. N6523624R3002, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic, for engineering, technical, and management support services for NIWC Atlantic’s network systems. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably and unequally evaluated proposals and conducted a flawed best-value tradeoff analysis.
We deny the protest.
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