FCDL Comment:
DR1:FCC rules require that, in order to determine the most cost effective provider, that the price of the eligible products and services must be weighted the most heavily in your bid evaluation. You included the value of ineligible products and services in your price factor. Other cost factors can be included in your bid evaluation, but these factors cannot have a weighting equal to or more than the cost of the eligible products and services. Since the price of the eligible products and services alone was not weighted the greatest, you violated the competitive bidding program rules.||DR2:FCC rules require that applicants provide sufficient information with the FCC Form 470 in order for potential vendors to be able to formulate valid service solutions. Specifically, you failed to list specific details of the products and services on your FCC Form 470. You did not clearly identify and request the products and services the district was seeking. The RFP you released provided no specificity and stated, “The District has not determined the amount or type of units that will be needed under this bid”. Lastly, the quantities and products listed on the FCC Form 470 were significantly different from what was requested on the FCC Form 471. This FRN is denied because the applicant has not provided sufficient information for potential vendors to evaluate its service needs.||DR3:The applicant scored the bids based on a sample project. The sample project included new requirements, specifically including quantities of products, that were not included in the Form 470 or RFP. Because not all of the bid requirements were made available to the prospective bidders, the process was not fair and open. Therefore, funding is denied. ||MR1:The amount of the funding request for FRN 1999048673 was reduced from $85,872.61 to $0.00. This funding request is reduced as a result of a Cost Effectiveness Review, which has determined that your request for Caching Equipment under FRN line item 1999048673.016 has not been justified as being cost effective as required by FCC Rules.||MR2:The funding request was reduced based on the failure to provide: Category 2 budget reduction and as per the applicant's request to deny the requested services. This information was needed to determine the eligibility of the products and services in your request.