A firm protested the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range for a job program study, contending that: (1) HHS improperly evaluated its proposal; (2) the solicitation was misleading regarding the type of study required; (3) HHS should have allowed it to revise its proposal; and (4) HHS failed to invite it to a presolicitation conference....

Procuring agency properly determined that the protester's initial proposal was unacceptable and not in the competitive range where the request for proposals sought the evaluation of specific selected state Job Opportunities and Basic Skills programs and the protester offered to perform a generalized nationally representative survey based upon a random sample. 2. Is untimely where the protester had...