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Under the applicable regulations, a post-award protest must be filed within the time period specified for protests following award notification or debriefing, whichever is later

Similarly, the Comptroller General has consistently required that "the source selection authority must adequately document the rationale for any tradeoffs made, including the benefits associated with the additional costs

The rationale must be grounded in the evaluation record

The SSA cannot create a new basis for selection that was not reflected in the evaluation; rather, the SSA must explain how the evaluation results support the tradeoff

In such cases, the SSA must articulate, with specificity, the advantages of the selected proposal that justify foregoing both the scoring advantage and the cost savings

The evaluation must be conducted solely on the basis of the factors identified in the RFP, and all offerors must be on notice of the criteria against which their proposals will be judged