AtVentures, LLC (B-421775.6)

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Category: Compliance, mentor-protege JV

Date: November 15, 2024

URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-421775.6

AtVentures, LLC, protested its exclusion from consideration for award under GSA's OASIS+ multiple-award IDIQ procurement for various services-based solutions. The protester, a mentor-protégé joint venture, challenged GSA's determination that its proposal was nonresponsive for failing to submit a qualifying project from either the protégé or the joint venture itself, arguing that it should have been allowed to use a project performed by its protégé's subsidiary.

GAO found the agency's interpretation reasonable: the RFP explicitly required qualifying projects from either the protégé or joint venture itself for eligibility, and denied the protest, finding GSA reasonably eliminated AtVentures's proposal for failing to comply with a mandatory solicitation requirement.

Digest

Protest challenging exclusion of the protester's proposal from consideration for award is denied where the record shows that the protester's proposal failed to comply with a solicitation requirement for mentor-protégé joint ventures.