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G A 0 Comptroller General
m Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
D e c i s i o n ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Matter of: Ross Technologies, Inc.
File: B-405266.2
Date: December 7, 2011
Paul A. Debolt, Esq., Dismas N. Locaria, Esq., Melanie Jones Totman, Esq., and
Brendan Lill, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester.
Sharon A. Jenks, Esq., and Maj. J. Bryan Warnock, Department of the Air Force, for
the agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated proposals is denied where the agency
provided a detailed report responding to the evaluation challenges raised by the
protester, yet the protester failed to meaningfully comment on the agency's detailed
defense.
DECISION
Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX), of Baltimore, Maryland, protests the award of a
contract to eSolutions Architects, of Montgomery, Alabama, by the Department of
the Air Force under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8771-11-R-1008 to provide
the Air Force Systems Networking Office (AFSN) with large-scale enterprise
network support, integration, and development. The protester alleges that the
agency improperly evaluated proposals, used unstated evaluation criteria in its
evaluation, and rendered a flawed best value determination.!
1 RTGX also alleged the following: that the agency evaluated the offeror's disparately
under the technical approach criteria when it rated eSolutions higher, though
presumably assigning both offerors' proposals the same number of weaknesses,
Protest at 31; that the agency apparent[ly] failed to perform a reasonable cost
realism analysis, id. at 36; that, because the agency makes no mention of it in the
protester's debriefing, the agency must have failed to make an affirmative
determination of the awardee's responsibility; and that the awardee's proposal
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