Agency Unreasonably Determined Competitive Range Based on Point Scores, Adjectival Ratings; GAO B-414360, Pinnacle Solutions Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the protester’s proposal is sustained, where the agency apparently ignored clear statements in the proposal stating the protester would comply with specific requirements related to employee purchasing authorities, applied unstated evaluation criteria related to contractor management hiring authorities, and did not consider the protester’s proposed approach to mitigating the risk of working under two separate collective bargaining agreements at an agency work site; and protest challenging exclusion of protester’s proposal from competitive range is sustained, where the agency based its decision on a comparison of point scores and adjectival ratings, instead of a reasonable consideration of the protester’s chance for award.