A firm protested the Naval Facilities Engineering Command's (NAVFAC) exclusion of its bid from the competitive range for grounds maintenance, contending that NAVFAC conducted a faulty and biased evaluation. GAO held that: (1) NAVFAC properly determined that the protester's proposal was unacceptable under all three of the major evaluation factors; (2) there was no evidence that a member of the tech...

PROCUREMENT Competitive Negotiation Offers Competitive ranges Exclusion Administrative discretion Exclusion of a proposal from the competitive range was reasonable where the record shows that the agency properly found the protester's proposal unacceptable under all three of the major evaluation factors and thus unacceptable overall. PROCUREMENT Competitive Negotiation Technical evaluation boards B...