Decision Released: Protest Denial of $310M VA Veteran Enterprise Module & System Integration Services task

Case ID: B-422302

Digest

1. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the protester’s proposal is denied where the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation.
2. Protest alleging unequal treatment in the evaluation of proposals is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the differences in the evaluation did not stem from differences in the proposals.
3. Protest challenging the agency’s best‑value tradeoff decision is denied where the decision was reasonable and in accordance with the solicitation.

Discussion

The protester contends that the agency unreasonably assigned a significant weakness to its proposal under the technical factor with respect to the approach to PWS section 5.2.3. Relatedly, the protester contends that the agency engaged in unequal treatment in assigning that significant weakness to the protester’s proposal while assigning a strength to Technatomy’s proposal for that same aspect. The protester further alleges that the agency unreasonably failed to assign additional strengths to the protester’s proposal under the technical factor. Lastly, the protester contends that the agency’s best‑value tradeoff decision was unreasonable, arguing both that it rested on a flawed evaluation and that the agency failed to reasonably justify its acceptance of the price premium associated with Technatomy’s proposal. We have reviewed the record and discern no basis on which to sustain the protest …

Decision

MicroHealth, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Vienna, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Technatomy Corporation, an SDVOSB of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C10B23R0029, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the development of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to modernize the agency’s mission-specific case management solutions. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposal, unequally evaluated proposals, and improperly performed its best-value tradeoff determination.

We deny the protest.

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Protest Denied: $310M VA Veteran Enterprise Module & System Integration Services task

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