Agency Not Required to Seek Clarifications When Protester’s Error is Not Obvious; COFC No. 18-1119C, Telesis Corporation v. Unite States

Protest challenging the agency’s deduction of points from a self-scoring worksheet without seeking clarifications is denied, where the protester’s failure to provide required documentation of its claimed experience was not a mere clerical error but a failure to provide a material requirement, and where the record suggested the protester misinterpreted the requirement, rendering its error a deliberate omission, not a simple clerical mistake.