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B-207670 1 (1983-09-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlik0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - !, 7 THE COMPTROLLER OENERA DSCIBION J0 OF THE UNITED TAT81 WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-207670 DATE: September 23, 1983 MATTER OF: Science Management Corporation DIGEST: 1. A complaint filed with a proposal alleging that the information in the solicitation and the documents available under the solicita- tion were not adequate for preparing a pro- posal involves a defect on the face of the solicitation and therefore is not timely since it was not filed before the time set for receipt of proposals. 2. Complaint that grantee should not have con- sidered turmoil that would be caused by replacing the incumbent contractor--because such turmoil was not identified as an evaluation factor--is denied. Grantee has shovin that consideration of the matter was prompted not by an unfair desire sitnply to retain the incumbent contcLckor, lout by concern 4ith anticipated disruption of the work based upon the com-plainant's experience on a similar job and its proposed method for performing the work, which concerns clearly were related to the solicitation's stated evaluation factors. 3. Although grantee should have amended the solicitation if it wished to take into account the effect that a substantially reduced caseload would have upon proposed price, it has not been shown that this prejudiced the co nplainant because the com- plainant's proposal was so seriously defi- cient otherwise that it stood little chance of selection. 4. Determination of the relative merits of proposals in response to a grantee's solici- tation is primarily the grantee's responsi- bility, and therefore will not be questioned by GAO unless shown to be arbitrary or to violate procurement statutes or regula- tions. 7

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