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 2003-12-15 monographic deposited born digital 30 p. GA 1.13:B-292789.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2 P0b002ee18fd48228 f:2927892 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2 B-292789.2 Comptroller General Decision

1. Agency performed reasonable price/technical tradeoff in determining that awardee's proposal for transportable water systems represented best value, based on consideration of price and the results of reasonable technical evaluation under listed evaluation factors, consistent with solicitation's evaluation plan; in making tradeoff analysis, agency had reasonable basis to focus on particular discriminator involving realism of logistics effort, even though it was not one of most heavily weighted factors.<p/> 2. Agency is not required to advise offerors of minor weaknesses or to reopen discussions where offeror's final proposal revision includes new information that constitutes a weakness or deficiency.<p/> 3. If offeror's price is not so high as to be unreasonable, agency is not required to advise that offeror that its price is not competitive.<p/> 4. Awardee's proposal on supply contract complies with the solicitation's subcontracting limitation that prime contractor perform work for at least 50 percent of the cost of manufacturing the supplies, not including the costs of materials; in determining compliance with the limitation, the awardee's overhead and profit should be included in determining the total contract cost.<p/> 5. Agency's determination that awardee's major subcontractor did not have a significant organizational conflict of interest because of its work as a support services contractor for the agency has not been shown to be unreasonable, where there was no evidence in record showing that the subcontractor had an unfair competitive advantage resulting from access to the proprietary information of competitors, or to competitively useful or source selection sensitive information not available to the other offerors. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2/html/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2.pdf GAO/B-292789.2 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292789-2 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-292789.2; Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.; Highland Engineering, Inc.; Etnyre International, Ltd.; Kara Aerospace, Inc., B-292789.2; B-292789.3; B-292789.4; B-292789.5; B-292789.6; B-292789.7, December 15, 2003; Title 41 Section 35-45 41 U.S.C. 35-45