B-270518,B-270518.2,B-270518.3: Mar 15, 1996

A firm protested a Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract award for security guard services, contending that USDA: (1) improperly evaluated its technical proposal; and (2) was biased against it. GAO held that: (1) USDA properly downgraded the protester's technical proposal because it failed to include the information requested; (2) the protester's higher-priced proposal would not have been in l...

B-270518,B-270518.2,B-270518.3: Mar 15, 1996

Protester is not prejudiced such as to justify disturbing the award where even assuming the validity of its specific protest bases its technical score would remain significantly lower than that awarded the awardee's lowest-priced proposal. Executive argues that the agency did not properly evaluate Executive's proposal and was biased against Executive. Offers were to be evaluated against three tech...