GAO protest weekly: 10 April 2025

This week in GAO protests …

LunaTek protested the corrective action DIA took to its earlier sustained protest. While LunaTek felt DIA should have reevaluated proposals, GAO found DIA was within its rights to amend the solicitation and request revised proposals.

Auburn Manufacturing misunderstood a DFARS clause as requiring US-made product when it only required a preference for such. GAO set them straight.

Resource Management Systems found no relief from GAO for its noncompliant pricing.

Finally, in SynergisT JV, the offeror had quoted two key positions—program manager and technical writer—held under GSA Schedule SINs 541611 and 54151S, while the procurement was conducted under 54151HACS. GAO sustained the protest, holding that the solicitation did not restrict vendors to quote LCATs only under SIN 54151HACS and that therefore the government had applied an unstated evaluation criterion in rejecting the protester’s offer.