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FILE: B-204871 DATE: March 19, 1982
MATTER OF:I Westec Services, Inc.
DIGEST;
1. Contention that a proposal should not have
been excluded from the competitive range is
without merit where the offeror's technical
proposal received 193 points of a possible
430, and the record shows substantial support
for numerous deficiencies assessed in the
evaluation.
2, Mere disagreimont with the research approach
favored by the contracting agency does not
* meet the protester's burden of showing that
the approach is unreasonable.
3. Composition ofda technical eialuaAion panel.
iis within the discretion of the contract-
:I ing agency and will not be objected to in
the absence of evidence of fraud, bias or
conflict of interest.
,*. 4. '3AO has no authority under the Freedom of
Information Act to determine what informa-
tion must be disclosed by Government
agencies.
1i Westec Services, Inc, (Westec) protests the award of
a contract to Wirth Associates, Inc. (Wirth) under request
for proposals (RFP) No. 8000-81-32, issued by the National
Park Service (NPS) to procure professional archaeological
services for the U.S. Army at the Fort Irwin National
' Training Center, California.
r Westec argUes that its initial proposal should not
I have been excluded from the competitive range, and that
it should have been given an opportunity to revise and
'7, clarify its proposal. Westec also criticizes the winning
proposal and requests this Office to evaluate and compare
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