Updated June 1, 2026
The GAO Decision has now been posted for this protest. See details below.
DIGEST
1. Protester’s various challenges to the agency’s evaluation of its technical and management approach are denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable, or where the record shows that even if the agency erred, the protester has not established competitive prejudice.
2. Protest that the agency failed to consider the effect of the corporate transaction involving the acquisition of the awardee is denied where the agency reasonably determined that it did not affect the awardee’s quotation.
3. Protest that the agency improperly found awardee’s quotation eligible for award under the terms of the blanket purchase agreement is dismissed as untimely where the protester had all the information needed to raise this protest ground more than 10 days before raising it in a supplemental protest.
4. Protest alleging exchanges conducted solely with the awardee were unreasonable and unfair is denied where the exchanges did not amount to discussions and therefore the agency was not required to have exchanges with all vendors.
5. Protest challenging the agency’s best-value determination is denied where the record shows the agency reasonably determined that the technical superiority of the awardee’s quotation warranted the associated price premium.
DECISION
Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI), a small business of Bethesda, Maryland, protests the issuance of a task order to GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC, of Greenbelt, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1332KP25Q0010, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for various commercial information technology services. The protester contends that the agency misevaluated the protester’s technical and management approach; failed to evaluate a corporate transaction involving the awardee; unreasonably determined that the awardee’s quotation was eligible for award in violation of the underlying blanket purchase agreement (BPA) terms; engaged in disparate treatment when the agency only conducted exchanges with the awardee; and conducted a flawed best-value determination.
We deny the protest in part, and dismiss it in part.
Protester: Spatial Front, Inc.
Solicitation Number: 1332KP25Q0010
Agency: Department of Commerce : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
File number: B-424251.3
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: May 13, 2026
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