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B-412456 1 (2016-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rel lability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 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: AlphaSix Corporation File: B-412456 Date: February 19, 2016 Carol L. O'Riordan, Esq., Anthony J. Marchese, Esq., and Taimur Rabbani, Esq., O'Riordan Bethel Law Firm, LLP, for the protester. John E. Jensen, Esq., Selena Brady, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for eKCG, LLC, the intervenor. James E. Hicks, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly assigned protester's proposal only a good rating, rather than the awardee's outstanding rating, under technical capabilities evaluation factor is denied where protest is based only on the number of the protester's evaluated strengths and subfactor ratings, while the agency's determination that the awardee's proposal was superior under the evaluation factor was reasonably based on a qualitative assessment of the competing proposals' characteristics. DECISION AlphaSix Corporation, of Sterling, Virginia, protests the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) award of a contract to eKCG, LLC, of Reston, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DJD-15-R-0004, for operation and maintenance of an information security (INFOSEC) program. The protester challenges the evaluation of proposals and resulting source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP provided that award would be made to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous considering five evaluation factors: technical capabilities, including subfactors (in descending order of importance) for cybersecurity