| FCDL Comment: |
FRN 1997897 will be denied because we could not determine if price was the primary factor in your vendor selection process. Your original evaluation sheet had three factors (Price, Onsite Service and Payment Method) used to evaluate bids; however, these factors did not contain a weight value to demonstrate price of the E-rate eligible products and services was weighted more heavily than any other single factor in your selection process. Upon a follow-up request, you provided the weight values and scoring for each of the vendors but the weighting and scores were just entered into an email, which is not documentation from the time that the evaluations were conducted. Based on this information, we were unable to resolve the discrepancy between vendor evaluation matrix in the original documentation and the weighting of the factors presented in your July 25, 2012 email. Because we are unable to resolve the discrepancy between the two documents, we are unable to determine that the weighting of the various factors that you stated in your email were in place at the time that the bids were originally evaluated and scored. In order to be compliant with FCC competitive bidding rules, applicants must select the most cost-effective provider of the desired E-rate eligible products or services with price as the primary evaluation factor. |