https://www.gao.gov/products/136017

B-230212: Jun 7, 1988

A firm protested a Navy contract award for maintenance and operation of a weapon testing facility, contending that the Navy improperly: (1) determined that its proposal was technically equal to the awardee's; (2) failed to rescore its technical best and final offer; (3) scored its cost proposal; (4) failed to adequately discuss the protester's staffing proposal; and (5) used its own cost-realism a...

https://www.gao.gov/products/421206

B-230212: Jun 7, 1988

In determining that two proposals are technically equal. Contracting officer is not required to ascertain specifically whether evaluators agree with determination of technical equality. 2. Contracting officer's determination that competing proposals were technically equal was proper where contracting officer reasonably considered the protester's slight technical point scoring advantage to be the r...