A firm protested a Department of Energy (DOE) contract award for technical, analytical, and management support services, contending that DOE: (1) misinterpreted the solicitation's evaluation criteria; and (2) conducted an inadequate cost-technical analysis. GAO held that: (1) the solicitation violated the Competition in Contracting Act and DOE regulations, since it did not disclose the relative im...

PROCUREMENT Competitive Negotiation Offers Evaluation errors Non- prejudicial allegation Protest that agency misinterpreted solicitation's evaluation scheme by according greater weight to technical considerations than to cost and by conducting cost/technical tradeoff analysis on the basis of that misinterpretation is denied where record shows protester suffered no prejudice from agency's action. A...