B-270268.2: Apr 15, 1996

A firm protested an Agency for International Development (AID) contract award for administrative, technical, and program support, contending that AID: (1) improperly based its cost realism analysis on predecessor contracts that had dissimilar work requirements; (2) should have upwardly adjusted the awardee's proposed costs for travel and the use of consultants because they were unrealistically low...

B-270268.2: Apr 15, 1996

Which was based upon a technical approach similar to that taken in the prior contracts. Protest that the award of a contract to an offeror submitting the proposal with the second-highest combined technical and cost score was improper is denied. Where solicitation sets forth detailed point-scoring scheme but does not state that award will be based on high score. Lower-scored proposal where the agen...