Agency Reasonably Excluded Technically Acceptable Proposal from Competitive Range; GAO B-416334, KSC BOSS Alliance LLC

Protest challenging the exclusion of a proposal from the competitive range is denied, where the protester’s proposal did not demonstrate its understanding of the requirements, and where the contracting officer reasonably concluded that the lack of strengths in the protester’s proposal, combined with its comparatively high price, rendered it unlikely to be seriously considered for award, even if its weaknesses could be addressed.