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B-187982 1 (1977-04-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadelt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: M ther Prsybylak Iroc. XI WO THE -JgUggrfROLLL,, A IPAL. D CISION or TH UNITeSe TEs C WAMINtTON. DC1 . 84 CO - FILE: B-138?93 DATE: April 4, ir MATTER OF: Checchi and Company DIGIEST: 1. Despite erroneous coding of procurement as one for research and development (R&D statute governibg evaluation of propo- . sals leading to award of R&D contract is not applicable where procurement is actually for support services. 2. Evaluation of revised proposals by some but not all of those who evaluated original proposals, without discussion among evaluators of their respective judgments, is not contrary to applicable regulations or otherwise improper. Where offeror's lack of biomedical research experience is Identified as propsrilweakneas. theie has been no change from evaluation criteria expressed in terms of general scien- tific experience since there is direct correlation between stated weakness and more general evaluatim criterion. When discussions are held with offerors in competitive range, agency in most casea is required to inform offerors of all deficiencies and weakisses in their respective proposals. Requirement extends to offeror whose proposal, as initially evaluat±. is acceptable despite existence of some deficien- cies, since offeror should be given opportuity to improve its propoa., 5. Although agency's failure to point out specific deficiency to offeror was improper, award will not b disturbed where it appears that offeror was not materially prejudiced in view of significant technical and cost differences between it and successful offerors. 6. Record does not support allegation that agency treated certain aspects of competing proposals as deficiencies in one of them but not the other. Checchi and Company (Checchi) protests the award of contract * No. l-CP-65759 to Enviro Control, Inc. by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Department of Healthp Education, and Welfare (HEW). Checchi alleges numerous improprieties in the procurement which, it suggests, reflect a bias in favor of the successful offeror. -l1- * 0 ' I I

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