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The Illinois Appellate Court has held that a procuring agency's source selection decision must be supported by substantial evidence and must reflect a reasoned analysis of the competing proposals' strengths and weaknesses under the stated evaluation criteria

1999) (holding that a procurement decision must be supported by a rational basis)

Ground 2: Reliance on Unstated Evaluation Criteria — "Workforce Integration Methodology" The SSA's tradeoff rationale relied upon an evaluation criterion that was never disclosed to competing offerors, in direct violation of the foundational competitive procurement principle that proposals must be evaluated solely on the basis of the criteria stated in the solicitation