Protester Misreads Solicitation’s Minimum Technical Requirements in Challenging Strengths Assigned to Awardee’s Proposal; GAO B-416222, Horizon Industries Ltd.

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation and award decision is denied, where the agency reasonably assessed a strength to the awardee’s proposal for accelerating the transition-in process, despite the protester’s interpretation that any plan that met the 6-month minimum should all be considered basically equivalent, and where the agency did not apply unstated evaluation criteria in evaluating the awardee’s proposal, but merely found the awardee’s proposal exceeded the requirements in ways the protester’s did not.