B-185061: Jul 29, 1976

VERIFIABLE LABOR RATES EXCLUDING PROTESTER'S SUBCONTRACT LABOR RATES WHICH COULD NOT BE VERIFIED BECAUSE SUBCONTRACTOR WAS NOT IDENTIFIED IS NOT ARBITRARY AND WILL NOT BE DISTURBED. 2. PROTEST ALLEGATION THAT EXPERIENCE IN FIELD SHOULD HAVE BEEN EVALUATION FACTOR IS UNTIMELY SINCE SUCH ALLEGATIONS REGARDING ALLEGED SOLICITATION DEFECT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MADE PRIOR TO RECEIPT OF INITIAL PROPOSALS. MA...

B-185061: Jul 29, 1976

The protester objected to the award of a contract, alleging that it should have received the award since its proposal was technically acceptable and offered the lowest estimated cost. The agency's cost analysis, which reduced the entire evaluation to comparison of the averaged, verifiable labor rates, excluded subcontract labor rates in determining the protester's averaged labor rates since the su...