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 1999-02-03 monographic deposited born digital 15 p. GA 1.13:B-281384 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281384 P0b002ee18fd43687 f:281384 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-281384 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-281384 B-281384 Comptroller General Decision 1. Allegation that protester would have been able to eliminate certain deficiencies in the portion of its proposal related to a certain item, had the agency made predecessor contract information available, is untimely where first raised after closing time for receipt of proposals and protester knew that the item had been used under prior contract (and actually requested that the item be provided as government-furnished equipment), but neither requested information about the item, nor protested its omission from the solicitation prior to the closing time. <p/>2. Protest that agency improperly considered offerors' experience in manufacturing specific item being acquired is denied where evaluation factors encompassed consideration of such experience. <p/>3. Protest that evaluation improperly was based on unstated criteria--methodology to mitigate component obsolescence of a specific component--is denied where, contrary to protester's position, record indicates that evaluation was conducted on basis of general methodology to mitigate component obsolescence, as provided for in solicitation, and protester failed to present a plan in this area.<p/>4. Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's price assumption--that component parts will function properly when manufactured to technical data package and assembled--as inconsistent with solicitation is denied, where solicitation specifically provided that contractor was not to assume that all possible combinations of tolerances and fits permitted by specifications/drawings would consistently satisfy test requirements. <p/>5. Where solicitation advised offerors that government intended to make award on basis of intitial proposals, contracting agency was not obligated to conduct discussions concerning protester's proposal, which was rated marginal with significant weaknesses based on omissions/informational deficiencies. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281384/html/GAOREPORTS-B-281384.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281384/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-281384.pdf GAO/B-281384 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281384 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-281384; Bulova Technologies LLC, B-281384; B-281384.2, February 3,;