Failure to Submit Signed JV Agreement Not a Minor Oversight; GAO B-414219, CJW-Desbuild JV LLC

Protest arguing the agency unreasonably rejected a proposal as technically unacceptable because it failed to include a signed joint venture agreement is denied, where the request for proposals specifically required this document and therefore the protester’s failure to submit it was not a minor oversight, where the agency was not required to consider information outside the protester’s proposal to establish the protester’s status as a joint venture, and where clarifications were not an appropriate method for allowing the protester to correct its proposal, because its failure to submit a signed JV agreement was a material defect.