Number of Strengths Assigned to Proposal Less Important Than Rationale Supporting Them; GAO B-414319.2, ASRC Communications Ltd.

Protest challenging an agency’s evaluation and award decision is denied, where the protester’s challenges to strengths and weaknesses assigned to its and the awardee’s proposals generally amounted to disagreement with the agency’s conclusions and arose from a misinterpretation of the solicitation terms, and where the agency reasonably considered the awardee’s proposal superior, even though it awarded similar strengths to the protester’s offer.