B-232217: Dec 12, 1988

A firm protested a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) contract award for the administration of its Special Higher Education Program, contending that BIA: (1) improperly failed to consider the qualifications of one of its key personnel; (2) improperly evaluated proposals based on unstated evaluation criteria; (3) should have awarded it the contract as the low offerer; (4) should have allowed it to corr...

B-232217: Dec 12, 1988

Disparity in scores between evaluators does not alone signify that the evaluation of proposals was unreasonable or biased where there is no evidence in the record to suggest that the technical scoring by the individual evaluators reflected anything other than their reasonable judgments as to the relative merits of a given proposal. Fact that agency may have utilized incorrect evaluation criteria d...