Agency Failed to Consider Significance of Technical Differences Between Awardee’s Proposal and Protester’s Higher-Rated Proposal; GAO B-286508, Satellite Services Inc.

Protest that agency's source selection decision was unreasonable is sustained where the evaluation did not comport with the solicitation's evaluation criteria and the source selection decision failed to reasonably assess the significance of the technical differences (in particular, the substantial difference in the proposed level of effort) between the lower-rated proposal of the awardee and the higher-rated proposal of the protester.