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B-419003,B-419003.2 1 (2020-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecbw0001 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 v v been approved for public release. Matter of: IDS International Government Services, LLC File: B-419003; B-419003.2 Date: November 18, 2020 David S. Black, Esq., Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Amy L. Fuentes, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. William A. Wilcox, Jr., Esq., and Megan O. Jorns, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that a solicitation's experience factor is ambiguous is sustained where the evaluation criteria and adjectival ratings conflict regarding the basis on which proposals will be evaluated. 2. Protest that a solicitation is ambiguous concerning the relative weight of the non- price factors is denied where the solicitation is silent, meaning that the non-price factors have equal weight. 3. Protest that a solicitation's phase-in evaluation factor is ambiguous is denied because the plain language of the final amendment eliminated any potential ambiguities. 4. Protest that a solicitation's price evaluation factor is ambiguous concerning whether the agency will evaluate price realism is denied where an evaluation of the risk of a buy-in does not obligate or permit a price realism evaluation. 5. Protest that the solicitation is ambiguous as to the distinction between types of operation and maintenance requirements is denied where the solicitation contains adequate information for offerors to understand the difference. 6. Protester is not an interested party to argue that a solicitation does not provide other offerors with adequate information regarding performance requirements.

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