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 1999-12-17 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-283685 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-283685 P0b002ee18fd485ab f:283685 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-283685 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-283685 B-283685 Comptroller General Decision Protest that in best value procurement agency improperly gave evaluation credit for aspects of awardee's proposal that exceeded the solicitation's minimum requirements is denied; where detailed technical proposals are sought and technical evaluation criteria are used to enable the agency to make comparative judgments about the relative merits of competing proposals, qualitative distinctions among the technical proposals are appropriately made under the various evaluation factors, and there is no basis to object to the recognition of advantageous features of a proposal that are clearly related to the stated evaluation factors. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-283685/html/GAOREPORTS-B-283685.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-283685/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-283685.pdf GAO/B-283685 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-283685 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-283685; The Moreland Corporation, B-283685, December 17, 1999;