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 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2004-07-13 monographic deposited born digital 4 p. GA 1.13:B-293964 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-293964 P0b002ee18fd4ccc8 f:293964 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-293964 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-293964 B-293964 Comptroller General Decision A <p/> 1. Where a solicitation states that award will be made on the basis of lowest price among quotations found satisfactory under the past performance/experience criteria, but also includes language suggesting that the agency would make a *best value* selection, including a cost/technical tradeoff if necessary, the solicitation is ambiguous on its face, and a protest of an award made on a lowest price, technically acceptable basis is untimely.<p/> A <p/> 2. Where request for quotations did not include separate evaluation criteria for evaluating the experience of individual key personnel and did not otherwise expressly restrict the consideration of key personnel experience under the corporate experience subfactor, agency properly could consider the individual experience of vendor*s key personnel in determining whether the vendor*s experience satisfied the requirement for a minimum of 3 years of corporate experience rehabilitating cranes of similar size and scope. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-293964/html/GAOREPORTS-B-293964.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-293964/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-293964.pdf GAO/B-293964 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-293964 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-293964; Dix Corporation, B-293964, July 13, 2004;