Preference for Federally-Approved Cost Accounting System Not Unduly Restrictive of Competition; GAO B-413559.2, Evolver Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s solicitation as unduly restrictive of competition is denied, where the agency’s evaluation scoring system reasonably related to its needs to award spots on a governmentwide acquisition contract to vendors who possessed a federally audited and approved cost accounting system and who had performed contracts awarded under the FAR.