B-224248: Jan 7, 1987

A firm protested a Navy contract award for automated data processing and technical support services, contending that the Navy: (1) improperly evaluated its proposal; (2) arbitrarily and capriciously increased its cost proposal; (3) based a cost realism analysis on invalid assumptions; (4) improperly increased its overhead rate during the cost realism analysis; and (5) improperly favored the incumb...

B-224248: Jan 7, 1987

THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE'S FUNCTION IS NOT TO EVALUATE THEM ANEW AND MAKE ITS OWN DETERMINATION AS TO THEIR MERITS. IT IS LIMITED TO CONSIDERING WHETHER THE EVALUATION WAS FAIR AND REASONABLE AND IN ACCORD WITH LISTED EVALUATION CRITERIA. TECHNICALLY SUPERIOR OFFEROR IS NOT OBJECTIONABLE WHERE AWARD ON THAT BASIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE SOLICITATION EVALUATION CRITERIA AND THE AGENCY REASONABL...