B-187887: Jun 10, 1977

IN DETERMINING WHETHER DECISION TO EXCLUDE PROPOSAL FROM COMPETITIVE RANGE IS RATIONALLY FOUNDED. DECISION IS EXAMINED UNDER CERTAIN GUIDELINES: (A) IS PROPOSAL SO DEFICIENT THAT MEANINGFUL DISCUSSIONS WOULD BE PRECLUDED? (B) ARE ALLEGED INFORMATIONAL DEFICIENCIES MATERIAL? (C) WAS INFORMATIONAL DEFICIENCY IN SOLICITATION AREA WHICH DEFINITELY ELICITED DETAILED RESPONSES? 2. NOTWITHSTANDING PROTES...

B-187887: Jun 10, 1977

Protester objected to its exclusion from competitive range due to technical risk factors in its proposal. Protester should have assumed that the agency would make its own risk assessment when the protester did not. There was rational support for the rejection of protester's proposal. The protest was denied. (QM)...