About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

B-420856,B-420856.2,B-420856.4,B-420856.5 Oct 06, 2022 1 (2022-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaonuk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                      Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                of the United States
DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to
D e    s / ' +'a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
been approved for public release.
Matter of: TekSynap Corporation; Candor Solutions, LLC
File:     B-420856; B-420856.2; B-420856.4; B-420856.5
Date:      October 6, 2022
Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Michael J. Slattery, Esq., and Samarth Barot, Esq., Blank
Rome LLP, for TekSynap Corporation, and Jon D. Levin, Esq., W. Brad English, Esq.,
Emily Chancey, Esq., and Nicholas P. Greer, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, for Candor
Solutions, LLC, the protesters.
Leslie Edelstein, Esq., Dawn Stern, Esq., Richard P. Rector, Esq., and David R. Lacker,
Esq., DLA Piper LLP, for Inserso Corporation, the intervenor.
Jason P. Cooley, Esq., Christopher Henshaw, Esq., and Nathanial Kenser, Esq.,
Department of Justice, for the agency.
Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protests that agency unreasonably evaluated proposals are denied where evaluation
is consistent with the stated evaluation criteria.
2. Protests that agency performed unreasonable price/technical tradeoff are denied
where source selection official reviewed evaluation documents, independently assessed
proposals, and concluded that the awardee submitted a superior technical proposal
which was worth a slight price premium.
3. In conducting price/technical tradeoff, source selection official was not required to
find protester's proposal overall superior to the awardee's proposal simply because its
proposal was considered superior under one factor, albeit the most highly weighted
non-price factor.
DECISION
TekSynap Corporation, of Reston, Virginia, and Candor Solutions, LLC, of McLean,
Virginia, protest the award of a contract to Inserso Corporation, of Vienna, Virginia,
under request for proposals (RFP) No. 15PTDE22Q00000007, issued by the
Department of Justice for enterprise infrastructure management and customer support
services. TekSynap protests that the agency unreasonably evaluated the proposals of

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most