B-272989: Nov 4, 1996

A firm protested a Navy contract award for military family housing and maintenance services, contending that the Navy unreasonably evaluated: (1) the awardee's experience, since the awardee provided only three references, which the Navy was unable to contact; (2) its experience as the incumbent contractor; and (3) the awardee's quality control plan as superior. GAO held that the: (1) awardee provi...

B-272989: Nov 4, 1996

Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's proposal as superior to protester's under experience factor is denied where record shows that agency's conclusion reasonably was based on the fact that awardee performed (and received "strong" reference ratings for) significantly greater number of similar contracts than protester. Each of the technical factors and subfactors was to be given an adjectival...