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B-421418,B-421418.2 May 01, 2023 1 (2023-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaooqk0001 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 c s ia GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: IDEMIA National Security Solutions, LLC File: B-421418; B-421418.2 Date: May 1, 2023 Kara L. Daniels, Esq., Stuart W. Turner, Esq., Amanda J. Sherwood, Esq., and Bryan R. Williamson, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, for the protester. Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Tracye Winfrey Howard, Esq., Cara L. Sizemore, Esq., Sarah B. Hansen, Esq., and Jennifer Eve Retener, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for Guidehouse LLP, the intervenor. Matthew D. McKenzie, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Raymond Richards, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where a conceded error with respect to a weakness assessed to the protester's proposal was competitively prejudicial. 2. Protest challenging the assessment of a significant weakness to the protester's proposal is sustained where the contemporaneously documented reasoning for the significant weakness is contrary to the terms of the solicitation and the agency's post-protest position is inconsistent with the contemporaneous record. 3. Protest arguing that the agency was barred from making negative evaluation findings based on relevancy concerns under a factor considering offerors' past performance is denied where the evaluation was conducted reasonably and in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. 4. Protest is denied where the agency did not apply an unstated evaluation criterion by finding significant risk associated with the protester's approach based on that firm's failure to demonstrate a certain capability during its oral presentation. 5. Protest grounds challenging a strength credited to the awardee as unreasonable and evidence of disparate treatment are denied where the challenges amount to disagreement with the agency's judgment and fail to demonstrate the agency disparately evaluated proposals.

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