B-283401,B-283401.2,B-283402,B-283402.2: Nov 15, 1999

DIGEST Protests against selection decision are denied where record shows that source selection authority considered major discriminators favoring selection of protester and reasonably determined that they did not justify the considerable price premium associated with the proposal. Olin essentially contends that the evaluation and selection decisions here were unreasonable. The three factors were "...

B-283401,B-283401.2,B-283402,B-283402.2: Nov 15, 1999

A firm protested two Army contract awards for small caliber ammunition, contending that the Army: (1) improperly failed to identify the qualitative differences among the proposals; and (2) improperly made award to the lowest-priced, technically acceptable proposal contrary to the stated evaluation criteria. GAO held that the Army: (1) properly determined that the qualitative differences between th...