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 2010-12-28 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-10-25 monographic deposited born digital 17 p. GA 1.13:B-272748 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-272748 P0b002ee180b9bcf0 f:272748 DGPO 2010-12-28 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-B-272748 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-272748 B-272748 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that contracting officials misrepresented protester's past performance record is denied where past performance conclusions are reasonably supported by the record, and there is no evidence that contracting officials were biased against the protester or otherwise acted in bad faith.<p/>2. Protest that awardee was improperly permitted to rely on subcontractors' experience under various technical evaluation factors is denied where the solicitation did not restrict offerors from proposing subcontractors or relying on their experience.<p/>3. Protest that contracting agency improperly relied on an unstated evaluation factor concerning offeror's phase-out approach is denied where the solicitation proposal preparation instructions clearly put offerors on notice that a detailed phase-out plan was required and would be evaluated under the general management evaluation factor.<p/>4. Protest that agency arbitrarily deducted points from second-ranked offeror's general management score is denied where the lower point score does not reflect deductions, but rather reflects what the agency reasonably determined was the level of quality indicated in this area of the offeror's proposal.<p/>5. Protest that awardee proposed a key employee which it was not authorized to propose and did not intend to hire is denied where record as a whole indicates that awardee reasonably believed the individual consented to being proposed and that the employee would go to work for the awardee in the event it received the contract.<p/>6. Protest that contracting agency performed improper price realism analysis is denied where: (1) adequate price competition was received; (2) the agency compared offerors' proposed prices with the government's price estimate; and (3) awardee's proposed pricing was consistent with the number of employees it had proposed. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-272748/html/GAOREPORTS-B-272748.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-272748/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-272748.pdf GAO/B-272748 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-272748 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-272748; Matter of:Science & Technology, Inc.; Madison Services, Inc.;