Timely Protest of Noncompliance With One Specification Is Sustained

For various reasons, the protest that the awardee did not comply with specification was timely. One item was nonconforming where specification was restricted by question-answer exchange and recompetition was recommended. Cancellation of the entire contract was not in the Government's best interest. Even if evaluated differently, the protester's proposal would exceed the low bid on two items, this making academic the contention that information submitted for other purposes was used for evaluation.