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 2007-03-29 monographic deposited born digital 14 p. GA 1.13:B-299317 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-299317 P0b002ee18fd4ea02 f:299317 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-299317 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-299317 B-299317 Comptroller General Decision 1. Evaluation record fails to reasonably support the agency's conclusion that protester's proposal of [deleted] linguists is more likely to create shortfalls against the solicitation's requirements to fill 7,217 linguist positions than awardee's proposal of [deleted] linguists.<p/> 2. Where solicitation established specific evaluation benchmarks for evaluation of offerors' experience, and provided for comparative assessments against those benchmarks, an agency may not substitute a previously unidentified "threshold of sufficiency" as an evaluation benchmark against which proposals are evaluated on a pass/fail basis.<p/> 3. Evaluation scheme which effectively penalizes one offeror for proposing [deleted] and effectively rewards a competing offeror for proposing [deleted] fails to comply with Federal Acquisition Regulation requirement that evaluation factors must support meaningful comparison and discrimination between and among competing proposals. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-299317/html/GAOREPORTS-B-299317.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-299317/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-299317.pdf GAO/B-299317 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-299317 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-299317; B-299317; B-299317.2; B-299317.3, L-3 Communications Titan Corporation, March 29, 2007;