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                          THE  COMPTROLLERGENERAL
  DECISION                OF  THE UNITED STATES
                          V    HASHINGTON, 0  C. 20548




  FILE:     B-19 3256           DATE:   April 5, 1979

  MATTER  OF:   Science Management Corporation


  DIGEST:

1.   Agency's downgrading of revised proposal
     which reduced proposed level of effort does
     not represent deviation from evaluation
     criteria. Although RFP did not require minimum
     time commitment, evaluation panel, in deter-
     mining relative worth of competing proposals,
     concluded that reduced level of effort was
     inadequate for contract performance.

2.   While discussions, when conducted, must be
     held with all offerors in the competitive
     range, same detailed discussions need not
     be held with all such offerors; where agency
     is satisfied with an offeror's technical
     proposal, agency may properly limit further
     discussions with that offeror to price
     proposal even though further technical
     discussions are conducted with competitor.

3.   Alleged conflict of interest on part of pro-
     posal evaluator who is listed as consultant
     to subcontractor of awardee apppears to be
     more remote than real where record indicates
     evaluator has no meaningful relationship with
     subcontractor in connection with protested
     procurement. In any event, record shows
     protester was not prejudiced by participation
     of evaluator sinceJot-her-evaluators unani-
     mously selected-iardee, relative ranking of
     offerors would not change if questioned
     evaluator's ratings were excluded and ques-
     tioned evaluator actually ranked protester
     higher than awardee.

     Science Management Corporation (Science) protests
the award of a contract to the Institute for Survey
Research, Temple University (ISR), under request for



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