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 1999-04-29 monographic deposited born digital 14 p. GA 1.13:B-277827.5 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5 P0b002ee18fd46977 f:2778275 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5 B-277827.5 Comptroller General Decision 1. Where solicitation for a fixed-price contract stated that offerors could propose either to provide new items or to upgrade the existing ones and that proposed prices would be calculated by adding the total proposed price for the basic requirement to the prices proposed for all option periods, agency improperly deviated from solicitation's evaluation criteria when it adjusted proposed prices to take into account the agency's expectations of savings associated with the offer of new items and additional costs associated with upgraded ones.<p/>2. Agency's "normalization" of offerors' prices was not reasonable where it double counted the cost difference associated with the use of new rather than upgraded existing items by both deducting the price of new items from the total price of the offeror proposing them and adding the price of replacement items to the price of the offeror proposing to upgrade existing ones.<p/>3. Protest ground alleging that technical evaluation of awardee's proposal was improper is denied where there is ample support in the record for the evaluators'<p/>determination that the awardee had extensive prior experience and for the evaluators' high rating of the awardee's proposal on quality of technical approach. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5/html/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5.pdf GAO/B-277827.5 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-277827-5 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-277827.5; Marquette Medical Systems, Inc., B-277827.5; B-277827.7, April 29, 1999;