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 1998-04-13 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-278904.4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4 P0b002ee18fd4a42c f:2789044 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4 B-278904.4 Comptroller General Decision

1. Where solicitation proposal preparation instructions set forth type size and a clearly defined page limitation for proposals, agency appropriately declined to consider those pages of the protester's proposal which exceeded the specified page limitation.<p/>2. Protest that agency failed to perform proper cost/technical tradeoff is denied where source selection official balanced technical merit and price and reasonably determined that the evaluated technical superiority of the 11 highest technically-rated proposals warranted payment of the cost premium associated with certain of those proposals, and determined not to make an award to the protester whose proposal was ranked 12th of 18 proposals on technical merit and offered the 9th-low cost of the 12 highest technically-ranked proposals. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4/html/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4.pdf GAO/B-278904.4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-278904-4 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-278904.4; Centech Group, Inc., B-278904.4, April 13, 1998; Title 41 Section 253a(b)(1)(A) 41 U.S.C. 253a(b)(1)(A)