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 2001-09-14 monographic deposited born digital 13 p. GA 1.13:B-288127 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-288127 P0b002ee18fd47dc5 f:288127 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-288127 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-288127 B-288127 Comptroller General Decision 1. In a negotiated procurement in which award was made to the offer representing the best value to the government, a protester is an interested party under the General Accounting Office Bid Protest Regulations to protest the award and evaluation of proposals, even where the protester's offer is ranked fifth of seven offers, since, if its protest were sustained, it could be in line for award.<p/>2. Terms incorporated into solicitation for designing outpatient clinics are latently ambiguous and resulted in unequal competition where the record shows that offerors prepared their proposals based on different, yet reasonable, assumptions. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-288127/html/GAOREPORTS-B-288127.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-288127/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-288127.pdf GAO/B-288127 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-288127 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-288127; The Arora Group, Inc., B-288127, September 14, 2001;