B-200756.2: Nov 2, 1981

WHERE AGENCY REITERATES REASON FOR LIMITING COMPETITIVE RANGE WHICH ALREADY WAS CONSIDERED AS PART OF ORIGINAL PROTEST RECORD. MATTER WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FURTHER. 2. WHERE COMPETITIVE RANGE WAS BASED ON FINAL RESULTS OF COMBINED TECHNICAL AND COST EVALUATION WHICH PLACED GREAT EMPHASIS ON COST. AGENCY'S FAILURE TO CONDUCT ADEQUATE COST ANALYSIS LEFT IT IN NO POSITION TO DETERMINE THAT ANY PROPO...

B-200756.2: Nov 2, 1981

ACTION requested reconsideration of a decision which sustained a firm's protest against it. In that decision, GAO found that ACTION unreasonably excluded all offers but one from the competitive range in a solicitation for a cost reimbursement contract. As a remedy, GAO recommended that ACTION not exercise an option to extend the contract after completion of the initial year of performance and that...