B-275926.2: May 19, 1997

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest of a Federal Prison Industries (UNICOR) contract award for bleached white sheeting material. GAO had held that the protester failed to establish a valid basis for challenging the award, since: (1) its protest of UNICOR's evaluation of past performance and price was based on the protester's misreading of the evaluation criteria; (2) there wa...

B-275926.2: May 19, 1997

DIGEST Protester does not have direct economic interest required to be considered interested party to protest evaluation of awardee's proposal and resulting award where. Even if protest were sustained. Award was to be made to the offeror whose proposal was most advantageous to the government. BTB's proposal was ranked first overall and ATD's proposal was ranked fifth. After award was made to BTB....