Similar Proposals – One Was Considered Weak – the Other Was Considered Strong

The Air Force issued a solicitation for someone to collect, analyze, synthesize and process scientific and technical information at its Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (essentially a publicly accessible website) . Information International Associates, Inc (IIA) was one of several unsuccessful bidders IIA challenged the award. IIA claimed that the Air Force unreasonably evaluated awardee’s proposal as containing a strength where the added benefit identified by the Air Force was not consistent with the terms of the solicitation while evaluating IIA’s proposal as containing a weakness when it was not materially different than the awardee’s proposal. (Well, as they say, one company’s strength is another company’s weakness.)

SOURCE: Similar Proposals – One Was Considered Weak – the Other Was Considered Strong