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B-414672.4,B-414672.7 1 (2018-10-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadveq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Novetta, Inc. File: B-414672.4; B-414672.7 Date: October 9, 2018 Scott F. Lane, Esq., Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., and Jayna M. Rust, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and Laura J. Mitchell Baker, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Vencore, Inc.; and Deneen J. Melander, Esq., Richard A. Sauber, Esq. and Lanora C. Pettit, Esq., Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP, and Kenneth M. Reiss, Esq., Northrop Grumman Corporation, for Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, the intervenors. Sarah L. Carroll, Esq., and Aubri Dubose, Esq., Defense Information Systems Agency, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the Source Selection Evaluation Board's (SSEB) rationale for removing a strength assessed by the Technical Evaluation Board is sustained where the SSEB's rationale is not meaningfully explained in the record. 2. Protest challenging the agency's evaluation under the problem statements factor is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable, and there is no evidence that the protester was prejudiced by any alleged evaluation errors. 3. Protest alleging that latent ambiguities in the solicitation led offerors to propose pricing on an unequal basis is dismissed for failure to state a basis of protest where the protester does not identify any solicitation requirements that were ambiguous or unclear. 4. Protest challenging the agency's decision not to conduct discussions is denied where the protester erroneously contends that certain factors must be present in Department of Defense procurements valued over $100 million in order for an agency to reasonably forego discussions.

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