Sparksoft Corporation is denied protest of government’s reevaluation (AI)

The protest concerns the award of a task order to RELI Group, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. 75FCMC19R0001, issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for data analytics support services. The protester, Sparksoft Corporation, challenges the agency’s evaluation of proposals and the resulting award decision.

Sparksoft argued that the agency improperly discounted the importance of corporate experience factor and the advantages of the protester’s proposal under that factor. They also contended that the new award decision was unreasonable because the agency did not conduct a new tradeoff analysis and relied on the same flawed findings that were addressed by the previous decision.

The agency’s response argued that the new award decision was a result of a new evaluation by the TEP that addressed the issues identified in the previous decision. The agency also acknowledged Sparksoft’s higher technical merit but concluded that the awardee’s lower-priced, lower technically rated proposal offered sufficient technical competence at an acceptable price.

In the end, the protest was denied.

This summary was AI generated on 31 July 2023 at Jason Bakke’s request.