Updated September 12, 2025
The GAO Decision has now been posted for this protest. See details below.
DIGEST
Protest that agency misevaluated awardee’s past performance and made an unreasonable source selection decision is denied where the record shows the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee’s past performance as relevant and properly considered the quality of its past performance in assessing the firm’s past performance overall as essentially equal to the protester’s, and where that evaluation supported the agency’s source selection judgment that the awardee’s better overall non-price evaluation and its lower evaluated price justified its selection as the best value offeror.
DECISION
Advanced Computer Learning Company, LLC, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Linchpin Solutions, Inc., of Tampa, Florida, also a small business, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N0018924RZ048, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk, for support services and data link training for the Joint Tactical Operations Interface Training Program and the United States Text Formatting Training Program, in North Carolina and at other domestic and foreign sites. Advanced argues that the Navy misevaluated the proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision.
We deny the protest.
Updated September 2, 2025
Protester: Advanced Computer Learning Company, LLC
Solicitation Number: N0018924RZ048
Agency: Department of the Navy : Naval Supply Systems Command
File number: B-423267.2
Outcome: Denied
Decision Date: Sep 2, 2025
