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 2006-01-12 monographic deposited born digital 17 p. GA 1.13:B-297374 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-297374 P0b002ee18fd4db0d f:297374 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-297374 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-297374 B-297374 Comptroller General Decision 1. Failure to file a protest within 10 days of a preaward debriefing does not render the protest untimely when the agency, after the preaward debriefing, reinstated protester in the competitive range and continued to consider the protester's proposal for award.<p/> 2. Protest of agency's reliability testing of offerors' bid samples is denied where the record shows the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the evaluation criteria; protester's disagreement with agency's evaluation is insufficient to show it was unreasonable.<p/> 3. Protest challenging the evaluation of technical proposals is denied where the record, including post-protest explanations of the rationale for the agency's contemporaneous conclusions, establishes that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and in accord with the stated evaluation criteria.<p/> 4. Agency's decision to make award based on a higher technically-rated, higher-priced proposal is unobjectionable where the agency reasonably determined that the awardee's greater weapon accuracy, reliability, and higher user assessment were worth the price premium. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-297374/html/GAOREPORTS-B-297374.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-297374/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-297374.pdf GAO/B-297374 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-297374 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-297374; B-297374; B-297374.2, Remington Arms Company, Inc., January 12, 2006;