B-227175: Sep 2, 1987

A firm protested a Navy contract award for engineering and technical support services, contending that the Navy improperly made award to the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer without evaluating relative technical quality. GAO held that: (1) regulations required contracting agencies to specify only the importance of technical quality relative to other evaluation factors; and (2) there was...

B-227175: Sep 2, 1987

Technically acceptable offeror improperly was based on factors other than those identified to the protester is without merit. Since protester was advised of agency's decision to award based on price when RFP was issued. Remarks by contracting officer to protester after RFP was issued and before proposals were due could not reasonably be interpreted to mean that the agency had changed the basis for...