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B-414672.5 Oct 10, 2018 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights Technatomy Corporation, of Fairfax, Virginia, protests its failure to receive a contract award under request for proposals (RFP) No. HC1047-17-R-0001, issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for information technology (IT) engineering services. The protester challenges the agency's price evaluation, contending that the agency failed to rationally determine whether offerors' proposed prices were fair and reasonable. The protester also challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal under several of the non-price evaluation factors. Finally, the protester challenges the agency's best-value tradeoff analysis, arguing that the agency failed to meaningfully consider price in its analysis. We sustain the protest in part, deny it in part, and dismiss it in part. We sustain the protest in part, deny it in part, and dismiss it in part. View Decision Decision Matter of:  Technatomy Corporation File:  B-414672.5 Date:  October 10, 2018 James S. Phillips, Esq., and Julie M. Nichols, Esq., Roeder, Cochran, Phillips, PLLC, 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 agency's evaluation of price is sustained where the agency failed to reasonably determine whether offerors' proposed prices were fair and reasonable. 2.  Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's proposal under the most important non-price factor, the innovation factor, is denied where there is no evidence that the protester was prejudiced by any alleged evaluation errors. 3.  Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of awardees' proposals under the innovation factor is denied where the record reflects that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation. 4.  Protest alleging that the agency identified strengths in other offerors' proposals, but unreasonably failed to recognize similar strengths in the protester's proposal is denied where the agency provided a meaningful explanation for differences in its assignment of strengths to the proposals. 5.Protest challenging the agency's best-value tradeoff is sustained where the record reflects that the agency performed a mechanical analysis that failed to meaningfully consider price and resulted in the exclusion of technically acceptable proposals. DECISION Technatomy Corporation, of Fairfax, Virginia, protests its failure to receive a contract award under request for proposals (RFP) No. HC1047-17-R-0001, issued by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), for information technology (IT) engineering services.[1]  The protester challenges the agency's price evaluation, contending that the agency failed to rationally determine whether offerors' proposed prices were fair and reasonable.  The protester also challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal under several of the non-price evaluation factors.  Finally, the protester challenges the agency's best-value tradeoff analysis, arguing that the agency failed to meaningfully consider price in its analysis.  We sustain the protest in part, deny it in part, and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND DISA issued the RFP on February 22, 2017, using full and open competition, with the intent to establish a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) referred to as the Systems Engineering, Technology, and Innovation (SETI) contract.  Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RFP at 1, 11, 102.  The primary objective of the SETI contract is to provide engineering and technical support, services, and products globally to DoD, DISA, and DISA mission partners.  Id.