B-278254: Jan 12, 1998

A firm protested an Agency for International Development (AID) contract award for technical assistance contending that: (1) the bid evaluations were not reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria; and (2) AID did not perform a proper cost/technical trade-off in selecting the lower-cost, lower technically rated proposal. GAO held that AID's selection of the lower-rated, lower-cost bid w...

B-278254: Jan 12, 1998

Higher-cost offer in a best value procurement in which technical merit was stated to be more important than cost was not improper where the agency reasonably concluded that the higher-rated offer. Was not worth the additional cost. The contractor is to support the efforts of Polish local governments to be more effective. This is a follow-on contract to USAID's technical assistance pilot LGP progra...