Mission Analytics, LLC (B-423140)

You should not care.

Category: LPTA, cost or price evaluation

Date: 26 December 2024

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423140

Mission Analytics, LLC, an SDVOSB, protested the Department of Health and Human Services' award of a contract to Sharp Electronics Co. for multimedia devices intended for patient engagement and training. The protest alleged improper rejection of a small business set-aside and argued that the agency’s pricing evaluation failed to recognize the lowest priced technically acceptable offer. GAO dismissed the set-aside protest as untimely and found the evaluation consistent with the solicitation; the agency reasonably included optional training costs in its price evaluation. Sharp’s quotation offered all required training at a lower overall price, meeting the LPTA criteria.

The protest was dismissed in part and denied in part.

Digest

1. Protest alleging that the solicitation should have been set aside for small business concerns is dismissed as untimely where the solicitation issued following the protester’s objections submitted in response to an earlier proposed sole-source award did not specify that it was set aside for small business concerns and the protester did not timely challenge the terms of the solicitation before the closing time for the submission of quotations.
2. Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of quotations and source selection decision is denied where the agency’s evaluation and resulting award decision were consistent with the terms of the solicitation.