Summary

Rosemary Livingston, the agency tender official for the Naval Hospital--Beaufort's tender in a public-private competition under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 (the Circular), protests various aspects of the competition conducted by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy, for public works functions at the Bureau of Medicine (BUMED) Naval Hospital, Beaufort, South Carolina. The agency tender official principally argues that the agency improperly conducted a final round of discussions after rating its proposal "acceptable."

We sustain the protest.