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Only two protests have been filed so far after the General Services Administration’s award of 102 prime spots on the Polaris small business vehicle in December.
This is a strangely small number of protests, given that corporations submitted 569 proposals to GSA for the 10-year IT Services and Solutions Vehicle. This first awards circular for the general small business category.
GSA is set to give out more awards in the coming weeks in express small business categories, such as Women-Owned Small Businesses, HUBZone, and Disabled Veterans. These awards may also spark more protests.
Rigil Corp. and Assyst Inc. are the first two to challenge the SB’s overall awards. Both take into account the way GSA conducted the assessment, but raise other complaints.
GSA’s plan is to praise the hundred most sensible corporations with the highest technical scores and fair and moderate prices. The firm ended up with 102 winners due to ties in the #hundred position.
Rigil alleges that GSA improperly scored its experience, which caused the company to miss the cutoff.
Assyst claims it didn’t get credits for two of its projects, meaning its score is also too low to meet the threshold.
They presented their protests on January 6 and the Government Accountability Office will rule until April 16.
After the Polaris solicitation was released in September 2022, it was hit with several protests that worked their way through the Government Accountability Office and then to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Polaris replaced Alliant 2 Small Business, which it canceled in 2020 after being hit by an onslaught of protests.
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