A firm protested a Navy contract award for an undersea surveillance system, contending that the Navy: (1) improperly applied cost evaluation criteria; (2) improperly underemphasized the significance of technical factors; and (3) failed to reevaluate the awardee's technical proposal after it significantly reduced its bid. GAO held that the: (1) protester failed to show that the Navy's evaluation pr...

Protest that agency abandoned evaluation cost criteria set forth in solicitation is denied where the protester does not establish that it was misled to its prejudice by the agency's actual evaluation approach. Normalization of cost scores but not technical scores is not objectionable where point scores are used merely as guidelines in the selection process and the selection official retains discre...