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 2010-10-18 U.S. Government Printing Office 1998-05-20 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:B-279217 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279217 P0b002ee180b130c6 f:279217 DGPO 2010-10-18 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-B-279217 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-279217 B-279217 Comptroller General Decision

1. Protests challenging various aspects of agency's technical evaluation of proposals are denied where record shows that evaluation was reasonable and consistent with stated evaluation criteria.<p/>2. Agency properly assessed realism of proposals based on offerors' showing that prices for commercial items were based on actual, recent invoices for products being acquired; agency rated proposals higher (and lower risk) where proposed pricing was supported with invoices as opposed to vendor quotations.<p/>3. Protester is not an interested party to challenge eligibility of awardees to receive contracts where record shows that, even if protester were correct, intervening offerors, not protester, would be next in line for award.<p/>4. Agency's price/technical tradeoffs are reasonable where record shows agency weighed technical merit against price in determining that one offeror's technically superior, higher-priced proposal represented best value for one award, and that another offeror's low-priced, technically inferior proposal represented the best value for second award. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-279217/html/GAOREPORTS-B-279217.htm GAO/B-279217 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-279217 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-279217; Quaker Valley Meats, Inc./Supreme Sales, GmbH, A Joint; Title 10 Section 2241note 10 U.S.C. 2241note