Protest Sustained Where Agency Failed to Compare Low Proposed Salaries to Incumbent Salaries; GAO-B-414519, SURVICE Engineering Company LLC

Protest challenging the agency’s technical evaluation is sustained in part, where the agency failed to compare the awardee’s proposed compensation plan to the salaries paid under the incumbent contract, as required, and where the agency assigned strengths to the awardee’s proposal while ignoring similar strengths in the protester’s proposal; and denied in part, where the agency was not required to consider technical strengths in the protester’s CPARs but not included in the proposal.