Conflict Between Solicitation, Amendment Should Have Been Questioned Prior to Deadline for Proposals; COFC No. 17-80C, QTC Medical Services Inc. v. United States

Protest challenging the agency’s price evaluation is dismissed as untimely, where the protesters were aware of the agency’s methodology for benchmarking price reasonableness prior to the deadline for final proposal revisions, and where an ambiguity created by an amendment to the original solicitation was patent and also should have been challenged prior to the submission of FPRs; and protest challenging the award of two contracts within the same district to two offerors owned by the same parent company is denied, where the solicitation stated the agency could award one or two contracts per district and did not prohibit the agency from awarding contracts to affiliated entities.