United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-09-12 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:B-270505.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2 P0b002ee18fd4d35f f:2705052 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2 B-270505.2 Comptroller General Decision 1. Where agency brought principal concerns about the protester's proposal to the attention of the protester and since various other weaknesses, both individually and in toto, did not prevent the protester from having a reasonable chance for award, the agency's failure to point out those other weaknesses did not deprive the protester of meaningful discussions; agency was not required to hold discussions regarding every weakness identified in the protester's proposal.<p/>2. Where a solicitation lists evaluation factors and subfactors in descending order of importance, each factor listed and each subfactor within each factor is of decreasing weight; such an evaluation scheme does not indicate that the subfactors of lower-weighted factors are necessarily of less individual weight than subfactors of higher-weighted factors.<p/>3. Agency scoring and weighting method used to evaluate and rank offers was consistent with the evaluation scheme stated in the solicitation and did not produce an irrational award selection result.<p/>4. Protester was not prejudiced by the agency's alleged waiver of a requirement that potential offerors have certain security clearances by an established date where the record does not evidence that had the protester been aware of the allegedly relaxed requirement, it would have submitted a different proposal that would have had a reasonable possibility of award. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2/html/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2.pdf GAO/B-270505.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270505-2 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-270505.2; Brown & Root, Inc. and Perini Corp., a joint venture;