B-274269: Dec 2, 1996

A research foundation protested a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) contract award for clinical studies of chronic lyme disease, contending that NIAID: (1) failed to conduct a proper cost evaluation and merely accepted, and compared as the basis for award selection, the bidders' bottom-line proposed costs without further analysis; and (2) should have evaluated the bidde...

B-274269: Dec 2, 1996

The contractor is to develop the research infrastructure for NIAID to address two essential issues . Advises that the major focus of the studies will be on the therapeutic effects of antimicrobial agents. The protocol is the offeror's technical approach to conducting the clinical study of the disease and includes such things as the drugs that the offeror proposed to utilize in studying treatment o...