FCDL Comment:
DR1:This FRN is denied since you did not adhere to the criteria outlined on your vendor selection documentation when you evaluated bids. Specifically, you did not scored bids correctly based on the prices proposed by each vendor. The least expensive bids did not receive the highest scores for Price of Eligible Products and Services and the winning vendor who received the highest score for "Price" was not the least expensive. Therefore, this FRN is denied.||DR2:The FRN is denied due to a competitive bidding violation. During your response to our initial Intent to Deny you stated "..Only Insight is a State of MN authorized vendor". Since the cited 470 is not a State 470, the applicant is unable to limit the awarding of the contract to ONLY state approved vendors through a mini-bid process. The applicant is required to consider all bids submitted in response to their 470. This response demonstrates the applicant was not considering all bids submitted by vendors who were not approved by the State of MN. Therefore, this FRN is denied.||MR1:FRN Line Item #2199059085.001 was for both Installation and Patch Cable and was split to agree with the applicant documentation. The new FRN Line Item # for 2199059085.002 is Patch Cable for the amount of $66,222.00. The product or service remaining in the original FRN Line Item # is Installation for the amount of $448,800.00.||MR2:The FRN was modified from $558,477.27 to $515,022.00 to match the amount supported by vendor documentation. The FRN was then further reduced to $448,800.00 to remove costs associated with cabling, which was not posted for on the establishing FCC Form 470. ||MR3:The Contract Expiration Date was changed from 09/30/2022 to 10/31/2022 to agree with the documentation provided during the review of the FCC Form 471.