December 2019 Bid Protest Roundup

In this post, we briefly summarize three of the key bid protest decisions published in November 2019.

• The first two cases relate to the legality of two unusual award methodologies—one examines whether a price/past performance tradeoff methodology violates recent restrictions on the LPTA methodology and the second strikes down a novel approach of selecting the most complementary pair of two proposals.
• Our third case is a rare sustained protest of a modification to an existing contract that was beyond the scope of the contract and therefore should have been issued as a new procurement.

Inserso Corp., B-417791, B-417791.3, Nov. 4, 2019

Summary

Solicitation for information technology services which provides for award to a technically acceptable offer considered to be the best value based on a tradeoff between price and past performance does not violate restrictions on the use of lowest-priced, technically acceptable award process or criteria.