Updated June 20, 2025
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging agency’s technical evaluation of protester’s quotation is denied where evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation.
2. Protest alleging that agency was required to seek clarifications before finding protester’s quotation to be unacceptable is denied where agency was under no obligation to do so.
DECISION
OReady, LLC, a woman-owned small-business of Las Vegas, Nevada, protests the award of a contract to ULU Hi-Tech, Inc., a small business of Honolulu, Hawaii, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1305M324Q0286, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for Linux system support services. The protester contends that the agency unreasonably excluded OReady from the competition for failing to meet the solicitation’s technical requirements.
We deny the protest.
Updated June 18, 2025
Solicitation Number: 1305M324Q0286
Agency: Department of Commerce : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Protester: Oready LLC
File number: B-422910.2
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: June 18, 2025
Protester: Tatra Solutions, Inc.
File number: B-422910.1
Outcome: Dismissed
Decision Date: Oct 10, 2024
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