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 1998-10-14 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:B-280520 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-280520 P0b002ee18fd4a4f5 f:280520 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-280520 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-280520 B-280520 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protester was not prejudiced by the agency's consideration of the transportation costs to the government associated with each offeror's proposal in determining which proposal submitted in response to a solicitation for the demilitarization of ammunition represented the best value to the government, where the solicitation did not explicitly state that such costs would be evaluated, because the agency reasonably determined that the costs should be considered and the record does not evidence that if the solicitation had been explicit the protester would have submitted a different proposal that would have had a reasonable possibility of award.<p/>2. Agency's estimate of transportation costs associated with the protester's proposal cannot be determined unreasonable where the estimate was prepared by government transportation rate specialists, and then was reviewed and double-checked by transportation rate specialists in response to the protest, and the protester, despite access to the breakdown of costs associated with the estimate, states only that one area of costs "appears excessive" and fails to identify any specific errors in the estimate.<p/>3. Agency's evaluation and relatively low rating of the protester's oral presentation and response to discussion questions were reasonable where the presentation and discussion responses failed in some instances to provide certain information specifically requested by the solicitation, and in other instances were very general. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-280520/html/GAOREPORTS-B-280520.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-280520/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-280520.pdf GAO/B-280520 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-280520 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-280520; Buck Environmental Technologies, LLC, B-280520, October 14,;