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B-413205,B-413205.2 1 (2016-08-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Vehicle Data Science, Inc. File: B-413205; B-413205.2 Date: August 15, 2016 J.D. Margulici for the protester. Brian Fischenich, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest arguing that the agency's consensus evaluation report did not accurately reflect the underlying evaluation is denied where the agency's evaluators attested that the consensus report accurately represented their views, and where the content of the report reasonably reflects the merit of the protester's proposal. 2. Protest challenging agency's decision not to remove evaluator alleged to be biased is dismissed as untimely where the protester failed to protest within ten days of learning of the agency's decision. DECISION Vehicle Data Science, Inc. (VDSI), a small business located in Oakland, California, protests the United States Department of Transportation's (DOT) decision not to fund the protester's proposal submitted under topic 14.1-FH2 of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program phase II solicitation, solicitation No. DTRT57-14-R-SBIR1. VDSI primarily asserts that one of the agency's evaluators was biased or lacked impartiality and that the agency's consensus evaluation process was flawed. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND The SBIR program is conducted pursuant to the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, 15 U.S.C. § 638, which requires certain federal agencies to reserve a portion of their research and development funds for awards to small

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