Decision Released: USCG Acquisition and Program Support Services protest denial

File No. B-422786, B-422786.2, B-422786.3

Digest

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the record shows that the agency’s evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.

Discussion

MTSA challenges the agency’s evaluation of its proposal under the management approach factor, multiple aspects of the evaluation of both offerors’ proposals under the past performance factor, and the best-value tradeoff decision. The protester has raised various arguments, including ones that are in addition to, or variations of, those discussed below. While we do not specifically address every argument, we have fully considered all of them and find that they afford no basis on which to sustain the protest.

MTSA contends that the USCG failed to identify multiple strengths in its proposal for features that exceeded the RFP’s requirements, to the agency’s benefit. Protest at 17‑18. In this context, the protester elaborates that members of the TET identified strengths in their individual evaluations of MTSA’s proposal, but the agency “removed” those strengths in the …

Decision

Management and Technical Services Alliance Joint Venture (MTSA), a small business of Arlington, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Vector CSP, LLC, a small business of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, under task order request for proposals (RFP) No. 70Z02323R93220001, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) for acquisition and program support services for multiple program management offices. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation of MTSA’s technical proposal, the past performance evaluation, and the best-value tradeoff decision.

We deny the protest.

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