File B-422823, B-422823.2
Digest Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of proposals and best-value tradeoff is denied where the agency’s evaluation and tradeoff were reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable procurement law.
Discussion
The protester principally challenges the agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s proposal and the best-value tradeoff. Specifically, the protester claims that the agency improperly ignored or minimized several negative features of the awardee’s proposal, which should have been evaluated as deficiencies or significant weaknesses. Protest at 51-63; Comments and Supp. Protest at 7-30, 44-51. Additionally, the protester claims that the agency’s award decision ignored several weaknesses of the awardee’s proposal, did not adequately consider the beneficial technical features of the protester’s proposal, and improperly converted a best-value procurement into a lowest-priced, technically acceptable procurement …
Decision
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., (BAH) of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Deloitte Consulting, LLP, of Washington, D.C., pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C10B24R0015 under the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Alliant II multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for enterprise software development services. The protester alleges that the agency erred in its evaluation of Deloitte’s proposal and in the conduct of its best-value tradeoff.
We deny the protest.
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