Decision released: USCIS Verification Information System IT Services protest denial

File No. B-422623, B-422623.2,B-422623.3

Digest

1. Protest challenging the acceptability of the awardee’s quotation under the corporate experience factor is denied where the plain language of the solicitation required one, but not both, of the members of the awardee’s contractor team arrangement to submit a corporate experience example.
2. The agency’s evaluation of the protester’s quotation under the technical demonstration factor did not constitute application of unstated evaluation criteria.
3. The agency’s evaluation under the past performance factor was reasonable and sufficiently documented.

Discussion

Slalom challenges virtually every aspect of the agency’s evaluation, including the following representative examples. First, Slalom contests the agency’s evaluation of the corporate experience factor, arguing that IBM’s quotation failed to comply with a solicitation requirement. Second, Slalom argues that the agency applied unstated evaluation criteria in evaluating Slalom’s quotation under the technical demonstration factor. Finally, the protester challenges the agency’s determination that Slalom’s and IBM’s past performance quotations were essentially equal. After reviewing the record, we find no basis to sustain Slalom’s protest …

Decision

Slalom, Inc., of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to the contractor teaming arrangement (CTA) of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Capital Technology Group, LLC (CTG), of Bethesda, Maryland, by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70SBUR24Q00000004 for information technology (IT) services. Slalom protests various aspects of the agency’s evaluation and source selection decision.

We deny the protest.

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