Agency Failed to Consider Superior Past Performance Rating in Best-Value Procurement, Effectively Converting Award to LPTA; GAO B-413779, Patriot Solutions LLC

Protest that agency improperly converted the best-value tradeoff competition set forth in the solicitation into a lowest-priced, technically acceptable competition is sustained, where the record shows that the agency did not perform a best-value tradeoff and instead selected the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offers for award.