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 2003-08-25 monographic deposited born digital 15 p. GA 1.13:B-292322 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292322 P0b002ee18fd4a54a f:292322 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-292322 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-292322 B-292322 Comptroller General Decision 1. Under procurement that gave technical factors more importance than cost, source selection decision selecting the low-priced, technically-inferior proposal as the best value, instead of the protester*s higher-priced, higher-rated proposal, was not reasonably based, where the agency did not reasonably explain why the benefits associated with the evaluated technical superiority of the protester*s proposal were not worth the price premium and where the source selection authority was not aware of the actual differences in costs that would be incurred under the competing proposals. 2. Protest that agency misevaluated proposals under a subfactor which contemplated a qualitative evaluation is sustained where the proposals received the same ratings, even though the supporting narrative indicated that there should be differences in the ratings. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292322/html/GAOREPORTS-B-292322.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292322/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-292322.pdf GAO/B-292322 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292322 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-292322; Preferred Systems Solutions, Inc., B-292322; B-292322.2; B-292322.3, August 25, 2003;