B-286229,B-286229.2: Dec 5, 2000

A firm protested the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) rejection of its bid for the care and maintenance of laboratory animals, contending that CDC: (1) inappropriately applied unstated criteria in evaluating its proposal; (2) unreasonably evaluated its proposal under the required services factor; and (3) failed to consider its past performance in determining whether to include it...

B-286229,B-286229.2: Dec 5, 2000

DIGEST Agency decision to exclude proposal for operation of two animal care facilities from the competitive range as unacceptable was reasonable where proposal confused requirements of the facilities. The technical factors to be evaluated were staffing. A technical evaluation panel (TEP) evaluated the proposals received and determined that SWR's was unacceptable due to substantial informational an...