B-287592: Jul 11, 2001

A firm protested a United States Coast Guard contract award for ship maintenance and repair, contending that the Coast Guard improperly downgraded its proposal and applied inequitable evaluation standards in retaliation for a prior successful protest. GAO held that the Coast Guard's downgrading of the protester's technical proposal was unobjectionable, since the record established that the evaluat...

B-287592: Jul 11, 2001

DIGEST Agency's downgrading of protester's technical proposal is unobjectionable where the record establishes that the evaluation is reasonable and consistent with the stated evaluation criteria. FBS asserts that its proposal was improperly downgraded and that the Coast Guard applied inequitable evaluation standards in retaliation for a prior successful FBS protest. Award was to be made on a best...