https://www.gao.gov/products/132550

B-225492,B-225492.2: Mar 25, 1987

A firm protested a Navy contract award for a submarine team trainer, originally contending that the Navy failed to follow the evaluation criteria because it did not perform a detailed cost analysis of the awardee's bid. After it received the Navy's report on the protest and responses to its Freedom of Information Act requests, the protester further alleged that: (1) the awardee's technical proposa...

https://www.gao.gov/products/405026

B-225492,B-225492.2: Mar 25, 1987

AN EVALUATION CRITERIA DESIGNATING COST/PRICE AS AN EVALUATION FACTOR IN A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS SOLICITING FIXED-PRICE PROPOSALS MEANS THE LOWER PROPOSED FIXED PRICE WILL RECEIVE THE MOST CREDIT IN THE EVALUATION. COST REALISM IS NOT THE EVALUATION FACTOR AND A COST ANALYSIS IS NOT REQUIRED WHERE THERE IS ADEQUATE PRICE COMPETITION. A PROTESTER MUST PROTEST WITHIN 10 WORKING DAYS OF WHEN IT IS IN...