A firm protested an Army contract award to another firm for waste recovery technology development, contending that the Army: (1) improperly evaluated its technical proposal; (2) failed to follow the solicitation's evaluation criteria for cost realism; and (3) only held discussions with the awardee, without affording other offerers the same opportunity. GAO held that the: (1) protester failed to sh...

Since maximum quantity was based on general. The RFP is for the development of improved technologies for the control. The minimum quantity of effort was identified as Task Order 1: "Pilot Study of Paint Waste Treatment Technology. No other task orders were identified in the RFP. The RFP also provided that the maximum quantity of effort against which task orders would be written was 94. This estima...