B-231167: Aug 30, 1988

A firm protested a Navy contract award for technical and engineering services, contending that the Navy: (1) improperly considered proposed subcontractors, personnel, and facilities in evaluating bids; and (2) should have awarded it the contract, since its low bid was technically equal to the awardee's. GAO held that the Navy: (1) properly evaluated bids, following the solicitation's evaluation fo...

B-231167: Aug 30, 1988

A protest that the contracting agency did not properly evaluate technical proposals according to the solicitation's stated evaluation scheme is denied. Where the record shows that the evaluators conducted a detailed evaluation of proposals in each of the technical evaluation factors listed in the request for proposals (RFP) and each factor was weighted to give it the appropriate degree of importan...