Ambiguity Between PWS Requirements, Quotation Prep Instructions Should Have Been Challenged Prior to Deadline for Proposals; GAO B-416091, CW Government Travel Inc.

Protest alleging the awardee did not fully respond to the solicitation’s information security requirements is denied, where the instructions for preparing the volume II quotation responding to the information security requirements listed specific areas for offerors to consider, and where any ambiguity between the instructions and the PWS was patent and should have been challenged prior to the submission of proposals.