LOGC2, Inc

B-416075 Jun 05, 2018 Jump To VIEW DECISION DOWNLOADS RELATED PAGES GAO CONTACTS Highlights LOGC2, Inc., d/b/a Connected Logistics, a small business located in Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a task order issued under the Army's Program Management Support Services 3 (PMSS 3) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, to Zantech IT Services, Inc., a small business of Tysons Corner, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, Army Contract Command, pursuant to request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. W52P1J-17-R-TMS3 for technical and management support services (TMSS 3). The protester, the incumbent contractor, challenges the agency's evaluation and award decision. LOGC2 also alleges that the agency failed to address a potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI) involving the awardee's subcontractor. We deny the protest. We deny the protest. View Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of:  LOGC2, Inc. File:  B-416075 Date:  June 5, 2018 Steven J. Koprince, Esq., Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., Matthew P. Moriarty, Esq., Shane M. McCall, Esq., and Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Rachel E. Woods, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1.  Protest that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the awardee's costs is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's proposed costs, taking into account the awardee's technical approach and individual cost elements. 2.  Protest that the agency failed to reasonably evaluate the offerors' proposals under the technical/risk factor is denied where the agency's evaluation was reasonable in accordance with the solicitation criteria. 3.  Protest that the agency did not meaningfully consider whether task orders held by awardee's subcontractor created an impaired objectivity and unequal access to information organizational conflict of interest (OCI) is denied where the agency reasonably investigated awardee's potential OCI and the protester does not show that the agency's conclusions were unreasonable. DECISION LOGC2, Inc., d/b/a Connected Logistics, a small business located in Huntsville, Alabama, protests the award of a task order issued under the Army's Program Management Support Services 3 (PMSS 3) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract, to Zantech IT Services, Inc., a small business of Tysons Corner, Virginia, by the Department of the Army, Army Contract Command, pursuant to request for task order proposals (RFTOP) No. W52P1J-17-R-TMS3 for technical and management support services (TMSS 3).  The protester, the incumbent contractor, challenges the agency's evaluation and award decision.  LOGC2 also alleges that the agency failed to address a potential organizational conflict of interest (OCI) involving the awardee's subcontractor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 7, 2017, the Army issued the solicitation to small business PMSS 3 IDIQ contract holders pursuant to the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5.  RFTOP at 1.  The RFTOP contemplated the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order with a 1-year base period and three 1-year option periods.  Id. at 1.  The solicitation stated that award would be made on a best-value tradeoff basis based upon the following factors:  technical/risk and cost/price.  Id., add. 0004, Instructions and Evaluation Criteria, at 18.  The RFTOP also provided that the technical/risk factor, which included two subfactors:  technical capabilities and management capabilities, was significantly more important than the cost/price factor.  Id. With respect to the technical/risk volume, the solicitation required offerors to provide a complete and detailed description of their approach to executing the performance requirements of the performance work statement (PWS), which divided the work into the following six tasks:  enterprise resource planning; business process support; solution implementation; data center engineering; cybersecurity/information assurance; and task order management.  Id., add. 0001, PWS, at 20.  Under the technical capabilities subfactor, offerors were to provide their approach for meeting the requirements of tasks one through five, including any identified corporate, technical or specialized experience where the approach was proven.  Id., add.