A firm protested a Forest Service firm fixed-price contract award for the design and construction of a footbridge, contending that the award was improper, since the Forest Service did not evaluate all bids in accordance with the technical and aesthetic evaluation criteria. GAO would not question the contracting official's determination concerning the solicitation's technical merits or aesthetic co...

Record of proposal evaluation contains statements that higher price was justified given proposal's perceived design advantage which does not readily lend itself to detailed narrative description but has been pictorially represented. This solicitation was issued on March 7. Bell Free argues that the Forest Service has not evaluated all proposals in accordance with the evaluation standards for the c...