A firm protested an Army contract award for food services, contending that the Army: (1) should have awarded it the contract, since it submitted the low bid; (2) failed to conduct meaningful discussions; (3) improperly failed to consider its satisfactory performance of a prior contract; and (4) intended to modify the contract, giving the awardee an unfair advantage. GAO held that: (1) the Army rea...

Higher technically ranked offeror is not objectionable where the solicitation award criteria made technical considerations more Important than cost and agency reasonably concluded that protester's lower proposed price did not outweigh the technical advantages demonstrated in competitor's higher priced proposal. When record clearly indicates that deficiencies in protester's proposal were brought to...