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 2000-04-27 monographic deposited born digital 15 p. GA 1.13:B-284481 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284481 P0b002ee18fd44997 f:284481 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-284481 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-284481 B-284481 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that the contracting agency misevaluated the protester's and awardee's competing proposals under certain technical evaluation criteria, including past performance, is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable; the protester's mere disagreement does not render the agency's judgment unreasonable.<p/>2. Contracting agencies are not obligated to afford all-encompassing discussions that "spoon-feed" an offeror each item that must be addressed to improve a proposal; agency reasonably led protester into the areas of its proposal with shortcomings that warranted amplification or clarification.<p/>3. Agency's determination, under a price evaluation factor, that the awardee's proposed price for a fixed-price contract was realistic and reasonable based on a comparison for similar service's prices under other agency contracts, is unobjectionable.<p/>4. Protest that evaluation of protester's proposal was influenced by bias on the part of contracting officials is denied where the record shows that the evaluation was conducted in accordance with the criteria announced in the solicitation and contains no evidence of bias. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284481/html/GAOREPORTS-B-284481.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-284481/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-284481.pdf GAO/B-284481 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-284481 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-284481; Arctic Slope World Services, Inc., B-284481; B-284481.2, April 27, 2000;