FCDL Comment:
FCC rules require that, in order to determine the most cost effective provider, that the price of the eligible goods and services must be weighted the most heavily in your bid evaluation. In your Request for Proposal, the cost component was a total of 45 points with separate points for cost of eligible items (30 points) and cost of ineligible items (15 points). However, during the bid evaluation process, you combined the scores of both eligible and ineligible products/services and evaluated as the overall cost. Since the price of the eligible goods and services alone was not weighted the greatest, you violated the competitive bidding rules of the Program. Because you included the cost of ineligible products and services in your evaluation of the price of each proposal, funding will be denied.