Decision Released: Protests Denied for GSA Polaris SB GWAC RFP for Customized IT Services

DIGEST

Protest is denied where record shows that agency’s action in amending the solicitation to address errors found in a prior protest was reasonable and not unfair to offerors.

DISCUSSION

Akima and Absolute challenge the terms and conditions of the agency’s amendment of the solicitation’s relevant experience submission requirements following the COFC decision and injunction. Akima and Absolute argue that the amendment unfairly and unreasonably restricts which offerors may revise their relevant experience submissions, and in what way. In addition, Absolute argues that the amended relevant experience submission requirements violate small business regulations. Although we do not specifically address all of the protesters’ arguments, we have fully considered all of them and find that none provides a basis on which to sustain the protest.

DECISION

Akima Data Management, LLC, a small business of Herndon, Virginia, and Absolute Strategic Technologies, LLC, a mentor-protégé joint venture (MPJV) small business of Wichita Falls, Texas, protest the terms and conditions of General Services Administration (GSA) request for proposals (RFP) No. 47QTCB22R0001 for the small business pool of the governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) called Polaris, to provide customized information technology (IT) services and services-based solutions. The protesters argue that a solicitation amendment, issued by GSA in response to a prior protest before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC), is unreasonable and unfair. We deny the protests.

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