https://www.gao.gov/products/138637

B-234569: May 15, 1989

A firm protested a Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) contract award for computer center support services, contending that: (1) PBGC used unspecified evaluation factors; and (2) the solicitation did not disclose the weights assigned to technical and cost factors. GAO held that: (1) PBGC reasonably evaluated both base and option year costs; (2) the protester should have filed a protest req...

https://www.gao.gov/products/420629

B-234569: May 15, 1989

Protester could not reasonably assume that contracting agency would evaluate base year costs only where on balance the more reasonable interpretation of the evaluation clause in the solicitation is that both base and option year costs would be evaluated. To the extent that the clause was unclear on its face. Protester should have sought clarification from the contracting offeror or filed a protest...