B-281218:
Dec 7, 1998
A firm protested a Forest Service purchase order for trail bridge construction, contending that: (1) the Forest Service misevaluated its technical proposal; and (2) it should have received the award, since it was the lower bidder. GAO held that the Forest Service reasonably concluded that the awardee's much lower performance risk outweighed the protester's lower quotation. Accordingly, the protest...