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B-203419 1 (1981-12-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjzm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Si. THECOMPTROLL PRGENERAL DECISION , OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 205413 FILE: B-203419 DATE: December 31, 1981 MATTER OF; Biospherics, Inc. DIGEST; 1. During evaluation of proposals in step one of two-step procurement, the agency may delete a requirement for information which was to be used in evaluating proposals where (1) the revised vequirement appears to reflect the agency's actual needs and (2) thero is no showing that the interests of offerors or potential offerors are unfairly prejudiced by the amendment. 2. Contention that the agency waived the solicitation's definitive responsibility criteria is without merit because the infor- mation requested (concerning prior experience and quality control programs) was general in nature and not sufficiently specific and objective to be described as definitive responsibility criteria. Biospherics, Inc., protests the proposed award of a contract to Lapteff Associates (Lapteff) by the District of Columbia (D,.C) under solicitation No. 0149-AA-0-1-RJ, a two-step formally advertised procurement for laboratory services at the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Facility. Biospherics ob'jects to D.C.'s determination to postpone evaluation of certain information concerning an offeror's ability to perform the required work until the second step, price competition, had been completed. Alternatively, Biospherics argues that the other offerors should be deter- mined to be nonresponsible. D.C. explains that its intent from the start was not to evaluate capability to perform until after prices were submitted in the second step. We find that this protest is without merit. On December 8, 1981, Biospherics filed suit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, raising the same material issues and requesting (1) a temporary *1 I $| i * I P I

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