Updated July 25, 2025
GAO has posted their protest denial decision related to this testing and automation support services requirement, to provide a comprehensive set of related and tailorable activities that support integrated, continuous, and risk-based test and evaluation during a product’s entire lifecycle.
DIGEST
1. Protest challenging the sufficiency of the agency’s best-value tradeoff decision is denied where the record reflects that the decision was reasonable and adequately documented.
2. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the agency’s evaluation of the awardee’s proposal where the protester’s proposal would not be next in line for award, even if its allegations were sustained.
DECISION
SOFITC3, LLC, a small business of Piscataway, New Jersey, protests the issuance of an order to OTOT Technologies, LLC, a small business of Arlington, Virginia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. HT0011-23-R-0056, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Health Agency (DHA), for test and evaluation information technology services. The protester challenges the agency’s evaluation of OTOT’s past performance, alleges OTOT’s proposal violated the solicitation’s subcontracting limitation clause, and contends the best-value tradeoff decision was unreasonable and insufficiently documented.
We deny the protest.
Updated July 17, 2025
Protester: SOFITC3, LLC
Solicitation Number: HT001123R0056
Agency: Department of Defense : Defense Health Agency
File number: B-423259.3
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: July 17, 2025
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