B-227839.2: Nov 9, 1987

A firm protested an Army contract award for protective masks, contending that the Army did not evaluate proposals consistently with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. GAO held that the: (1) solicitation did not indicate that any one of three evaluation criteria would be considered more important; (2) Army improperly weighted technical factors over cost and production capability factors; and (...

B-227839.2: Nov 9, 1987

A protest that the agency gave too much weight to those technical/performance factors and too little weight to price is timely when filed within 10 working days after the debriefing conference. 2. Protest that the Army's testing of protective masks and analysis of those test results bear no relation to real battle situations and therefore should not have been used to predict casualties is dismisse...