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 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2005-03-10 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:B-295569 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-295569 P0b002ee180378b83 f:295569 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-B-295569 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-295569 B-295569 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest that agency did not give sufficient weight to protester's superior warranty in selecting low-priced proposal for award based on a cost/technical tradeoff is denied, where agency reasonably determined in accordance with the solicitation that the warranty was not worth a price premium. 2. Agency reasonably considered awardee's past performance to be relevant, even though it was on lower-priced contracts than protester's relevant contracts, where solicitation did not state that contract value was a consideration in determining relevance. 3. Protest that awardee's price is unbalanced is denied, where the agency reasonably considered the risk to the government associated with the offerors' different pricing strategies, and properly determined that the government would pay less under the awardee's pricing approach than with the protester's and that the cost risk entailed in the awardee's approach was acceptable. 4. Agency did not err in accepting expired offer for award without reopening negotiations where, despite the protester's assertion that it can now offer a lower price, the acceptance of the expired offer did not prejudice the competitive system or provide the awardee with an unfair competitive advantage. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-295569/html/GAOREPORTS-B-295569.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-295569/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-295569.pdf GAO/B-295569 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-295569 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-295569; Scot, Inc., B-295569; B-295569.2, March 10, 2005;