https://www.gao.gov/products/120583

B-208539: Feb 14, 1983

A firm protested the evaluation of its proposal and its elimination from the competitive range under an Army Corps of Engineers solicitation. The specifications identified experience, quality of technical approach, staff expertise, costs, and ability to respond to the work schedule as the principal evaluation factors and required offerors to submit relevant information addressing these factors for...

https://www.gao.gov/products/480909

B-208539: Feb 14, 1983

DIGEST: TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF PROPOSAL IN A NEGOTIATED PROCUREMENT IS BASED ON CONTENT OF PROPOSAL. CONTENTION THAT AGENCY EVALUATION WAS IMPROPER IS WITHOUT MERIT AND ELIMINATION OF PROPOSAL FROM COMPETITIVE RANGE IS REASONABLE WHERE CUMULATIVE DEFICIENCIES WOULD HAVE NECESSITATED A MAJOR REWRITE FOR PROPOSAL TO BE ACCEPTABLE. THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO PREPARE THE OVERLAYS WAS TO BE COLLECTED U...