Protestor’s Lack of Experience Offsets Significant Experience of Sister Affiliate Subcontractors; GAO B-414591.2, Dawson Enterprises LLC

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation for a two-phase design-build procurement is denied, where the agency reasonably downgraded the protester’s proposal under the experience factor, finding that the prime contractor’s lack of relevant experience warranted a weakness that offset the strengths assigned to its subcontractors’ experience.