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 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1999-05-03 monographic deposited born digital 12 p. GA 1.13:B-281919 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281919 P0b002ee18fd4bbc3 f:281919 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-281919 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-281919 B-281919 Comptroller General Decision 1. Agency did not mislead protester during discussions even though award was<p/>ultimately made based on price and agency did not inform protester that its price was higher than awardee's price, where agency did not believe that protester's price was too high.<p/>2. Agency did not conduct unequal discussions with awardee and protester where agency conducted technical discussions with awardee, whose technical proposal was initially evaluated as containing a number of weaknesses, while conducting no technical discussions with protester, whose initial proposal was evaluated as containing no weaknesses.<p/>3. Protest that protester is entitled to a higher adjectival rating than awardee based upon protester's specific incumbent experience and staff is denied where agency in fact reasonably assessed the relative merits of protester's and awardee's proposals, including protester's specific experience and staff.<p/>4. Protest that source selection authority did not adequately consider the merits of protester's technical proposal is denied where source selection authority considered the relative merits of protester's and awardee's proposals and reasonably determined that the proposals were essentially equal technically and that award should therefore be made to awardee based upon its substantially lower price. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281919/html/GAOREPORTS-B-281919.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281919/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-281919.pdf GAO/B-281919 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281919 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-281919; KBM Group, Inc., B-281919; B-281919.2, May 3, 1999;