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60-Second Sustains: Sparksoft Corporation

Sparksoft Corporation
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• The awardee’s Systems Security Officer (“SSO”) was awarded a positive finding for holding a certified information systems security professional (“CISSP”) certification. The protester alleged that their SSO held the same certification, as demonstrated in the proposal, but was not awarded an equal positive finding.
• The agency admitted the unequal treatment was an evaluation error but argued Sparksoft was not prejudiced by the “oversight.”
• GAO disagreed, noting that the contemporaneous record showed that when the source selection authority (“SSA”) compared the awardee’s proposal to Sparksoft, the SSA highlighted the awardee’s SSO CISSP certificate as a discriminator between the two proposals.

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