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 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1997-06-30 monographic deposited born digital 19 p. GA 1.13:B-276487.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2 P0b002ee18fd476a3 f:2764872 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2 B-276487.2 Comptroller General Decision 1. In a negotiated procurement for telecommunications services where the solicitation established detailed functional performance specifications and a page limitation for technical proposals, the procuring agency reasonably determined the compliance of the awardee's (and protester's) proposals based in part upon the firms' promises of compliance with more than 1,300 performance requirements and evidence of technical capability or feasibility.<p/>2. Lower-level evaluators' assessment of significant risk of delay in meeting schedule requirements did not demonstrate that the awardee would not satisfy these requirements, where the source selection official reasonably found that the awardee had committed to, and was capable of, satisfying the schedule requirements.<p/>3. Where price is stated to be more important than the technical and management evaluation factors, the agency's judgment that the awardee's substantial price advantage outweighed the protester's acknowledged technical superiority, primarily in the area of evaluated schedule risk, was reasonable and in accord with the award evaluation criteria. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2/html/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2.pdf GAO/B-276487.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-276487-2 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-276487.2; GTE Hawaiian Telephone Company, Inc., B-276487.2, June 30,;