Differences in Substance of Offerors’ Proposals Belie Argument of Unequal Treatment; GAO B-411962.5, The Concourse Group, LLC

Protest that the agency imposed unstated evaluation criteria and unreasonably evaluated protester’s quotation as unacceptable is denied, where the RFQ clearly required offerors to describe their understanding of the requirement and to relate its non-agency experience to the evaluation criteria; and protest that the agency engaged in disparate treatment by applying lower scrutiny to the evaluation of awardee’s quotation is denied, where the differences between the contents and organization of the two quotations supports the evaluation results; and protest that the agency’s discussions were misleading is denied where the discussions were sufficient to lead the protester into the areas of its quotation which required revision.