B-282075.4: Jun 26, 2002

A firm protested a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contract award for health care services, contending that HHS did not award the contract in accordance with the solicitation provisions. GAO held that HHS fairly evaluated the tiebreaker factor since the solicitation did not specify a particular way in which to evaluate the factor. Accordingly, the protest was denied...

B-282075.4: Jun 26, 2002

Basis is denied. There was nothing inherently unreasonable in the agency's assessing only whether offerors' business management competence was at an acceptable level. The techncial evaluation factors were as follows: Technical Approach. Proposals that were included in the competitive range would also be evaluated for past performance. Where two or more proposals were technically equal. Contract pe...