Updated May 2, 2025
DIGEST – Protest challenging the agency’s price realism evaluation and determination that the protester’s price was unrealistic is denied where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation and applicable law and regulation.
DECISION – Fusion Technology, LLC, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Trilogy Innovations, Inc., of Bridgeport, West Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-09232022, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), for digital and information technology services. The protester primarily challenges the agency’s price realism evaluation and rejection of its quotation as unrealistic.
We deny the protest.
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By way of background, this protest follows several rounds of protests and agency voluntary corrective action over the course of this procurement.
On August 23, 2022, the agency issued the RFQ to vendors with a General Services Administration, Multiple Award Schedule contract under Special Identification Number 54151S for information technology professional services. According to the RFQ, the agency seeks to acquire agile teams, each comprised of three to eleven individuals, to deliver digital and information technology services for the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS). The RFQ explains that an agile team is a “cross-functional group of individuals who define, build, test, and deliver an increment of value,” and that these teams will apply a “Scaled Agile Framework” (SAFe), which is “an enterprise agility framework that helps organizations apply lean and agile principles and practices at all levels of the organization.”
The RFQ seeks to establish five time-and-materials and fixed-price task orders–collectively called “FBI Agility with SAFe Teams”–one for each of five service areas for the FBI’s CJIS.
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Solicitation Number RFQ-09232022
Agency Department of Justice: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Protester: Fusion Technology, LLC
File number: B-421560.13
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: Apr 7, 2025
We will not speculate here what it means, but more than a month after a challenger filed a fresh protest in relation this high profile Federal Bureau of Investigation requirement, another protest has been filed. This does indicate that some action was taken or communicated by the agency that forced the new challenger to respond (again).
Protester: ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc.
File number: B-421560.14
Status: Case Currently Open
Filed Date: Jan 30, 2025
Due Date: May 12, 2025
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“According to the RFQ, the agency seeks to acquire agile teams, each comprised of three to 11 individuals, to deliver digital and information technology services for the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS). The RFQ explains that an agile team is a cross-functional group of individuals who define, build, test, and deliver an increment of value,” and that these teams will apply a “Scaled Agile Framework” (SAFe), which is “an enterprise agility framework that helps organizations apply lean and agile principles and practices at all levels of the organization. The RFQ seeks to establish five time-and-materials and fixed-price task orders–collectively called “FBI Agility with SAFe Teams” (FAST)–one for each of five service areas for the FBI’s CJIS. Each task order is identified by a separate contract line item number (CLIN), as follows: CLIN 1, law enforcement support services; CLIN 2, biometric services; CLIN 3, National Crime Information Center; CLIN 4, shared services; and CLIN 5, operational programs.. The period of performance for each task order includes a base period of one year, including a 3-month transition period and 9‑month base period, and four 12-month option periods.” Source: GAO
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