Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc. v. Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury, and at & T Federal Systems, Intervenor

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• holding that Board of Contract Appeals should defer to agency’s best value decision as long as it is “grounded in reason ... even if the Board itself might have chosen a different bidder”
• finding the agency, “through its price/technical analysis, neither disregarded price nor discounted it to such a degree that it was effectively rendered meaningless”
• upholding award decision where successful offeror was one-half billion dollars more than next offeror
• upholding award decision where successful offeror was one-half billion dollars more than next offeror
• upholding award decision where technical advantages warranted higher costs of one-half billion dollars
• upholding award decision where technical advantages warranted higher costs of one-half billion dollars

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