B-280388,B-280388.2: Sep 25, 1998

Protest challenging areas of technical evaluation of protester's proposal is denied where protester either failed to rebut agency's explanation of why downgrading was appropriate. Or failed to show that downgrading based on omission of information from proposal was unreasonable. 2. Protest against adequacy of documentation for revised scoring of protester's proposal is denied where. Basis for down...

B-280388,B-280388.2: Sep 25, 1998

A firm protested an United States Marshals Service (USMS) contract award for court security services, contending that: (1) USMS misevaluated its proposal under the management and past performance factors; (2) USMS failed to document its decision to revise the scoring of its bid; and (3) the awardee's bid price should have been found unacceptable. GAO held that: (1) USMS reasonably evaluated the pr...