Agency Unreasonably Overlooked Serious Design Flaw in Awardee’s Proposal; GAO B-413389, Jacobs Technology Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s past performance evaluation of the awardee is denied, where the agency was not required to consider work elements in past performance references separately to determine whether the discrete effort could be considered recent; and protest challenging the agency’s technical evaluation of the awardee’s proposal is sustained, where the protester’s response to a design and installation scenario proposed a significantly lower level of service than contemplated by the solicitation and indicated a lack of technical understanding, which the agency failed to consider.