B-204969: Aug 18, 1982

A firm protested the award of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for maintenance of an automated systems database. The agency found the protester's technical proposal to be technically unacceptable and ruled that the awardee's was reasonable and realistic. The protester argued that: (1) the proposal technical evaluation was defective in the scoring of both its proposal and the awardee's proposal; (2)...

B-204969: Aug 18, 1982

PROTEST OF TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF PROPOSAL IS DENIED WHERE PROTESTER HAS NOT SHOWN EVALUATION TO BE UNREASONABLE OR ARBITRARY. 2. PROPOSAL OF MORE THAN ESTIMATED NUMBER OF MAN-YEARS IN RFP IS NOT A DEPARTURE FROM RFP REQUIREMENTS. SINCE ESTIMATE WAS MERELY THAT AND NOT A REQUIREMENT. DDC ESSENTIALLY ARGUES THAT THE TECHNICAL EVALUATION WAS DEFECTIVE. QUESTIONS ASKED BY PROSPECTIVE OFFERORS WERE A...