A firm protested its exclusion from the competitive range under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) request for proposals (RFP) for programmable magnetic tape terminals. The protester contended that it had submitted a proposal which offered technically responsive hardware and operating systems software. It conceded that it had omitted responses to certain sections of the RFP, but arg...

IS PROPER WHERE THE RECORD SHOWS THAT THE AGENCY REASONABLY FOUND TECHNICAL AND INFORMATIONAL DEFICIENCIES IN THE PROPOSAL WHICH WERE SO MATERIAL THAT MAJOR REVISIONS AND ADDITIONS TO THE PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE BEEN REQUIRED TO MAKE IT ACCEPTABLE. 2. A PROTESTER'S MERE DISAGREEMENT WITH THE AGENCY'S TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF ITS PROPOSAL DOES NOT MEET THE PROTESTER'S BURDEN OF SHOWING THE EVALUATION IS...