In its January 2016 decision in Castro & Company, LLC, the GAO ordered a re-evaluation in the context of an RFQ for internal controls support services on the grounds that the government had failed to maintain proper evaluation records. The GAO found that the scores of the winning bidder in the technical and past performance categories were not supported in the contemporaneous evaluation records. The GAO found that that the government had failed to document how the selected bid measured up to the competing bids or substantiate how the awardee’s technical scores justified paying a $298,000 premium over the cost of the best competing offer.
