B-265793: Dec 29, 1995

A firm protested an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) contract award for energy pressure vessels, contending that EPA: (1) failed to conduct meaningful discussions; (2) improperly evaluated its technical proposal using an undisclosed evaluation criterion; and (3) made an unreasonable cost-technical tradeoff decision when it selected the awardee's technically superior high bid. GAO held that EP...

B-265793: Dec 29, 1995

Agency is not obligated to discuss every aspect of a technically acceptable proposal that receives less than the maximum score. Protest that agency improperly applied unstated evaluation criterion by considering offerors' availability of key personnel is denied where proposal was not downgraded in this regard. Where the solicitation stated that technical considerations were more important than cos...