Unbalanced Pricing Calls Into Question Offeror’s Expertise and Understanding of the Requirements; COFC No. 17-1543C, Harmonia Holdings Group LLC v. United States and OST Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s evaluation of the protester’s price quotation is denied, where the agency did not reject the proposal because it fell outside the range established using an independent government cost estimate, where the protester was not required to propose the same level of effort demonstrated on the incumbent contract, and where the agency reasonably concluded the protester’s unbalanced pricing demonstrated a misunderstanding of the requirement.