B-256426.4: Jan 26, 1995

A firm protested an Air Force contract award for a prototype maintenance training set, contending that the Air Force improperly: (1) evaluated its software capabilities; and (2) calculated the most probable cost (MPC) of its bid. GAO held that the: (1) protester failed to submit sufficient historical data regarding its software capabilities; and (2) Air Force properly used a commercial software es...

B-256426.4: Jan 26, 1995

Protest against evaluation of protester's computer software capabilities as presenting high risk is denied where protester failed to furnish requested historical data regarding validity of its software estimating methodology and the historical data which it did submit did not demonstrate the reliability of the firm's software development estimates. Agency's approach to estimating most probable cos...