B-270168: Feb 13, 1996

A firm protested a Navy contract award for custodial services, contending that the Navy: (1) unreasonably evaluated and downgraded its technical proposal; (2) improperly evaluated its past performance and proposed employees; and (3) conducted an improper cost-technical tradeoff. GAO held that the Navy: (1) reasonably evaluated and downgraded the protester's technical proposal, since it lacked the...

B-270168: Feb 13, 1996

Allegation that agency improperly downgraded the protester's proposal under the experience subfactor based on an inadequate resume for its executive housekeeper is without merit where the record shows agency in fact determined that the resume met the solicitation requirements and that the downgrading was properly based on the protester's failure to provide required information on the firm's corpor...