Deviations From Solicitation Requirements

The protester asserted that the award of a contract was in violation of Federal procurement regulations because the awardee's proposed system deviated from the solicitation requirements and the agency failed to communicate the relaxation of the specification to all offerors. The agency was not required to amend the specification to apprise all offerors of the proposed elimination of items which were not required by the system design proposed by one offeror. Since the protester also took exception to certain requirements in the solicitation, it appeared to have understood that specification deviation was permitted so long as functional and performance requirements were met.