B-193299: Mar 29, 1979

BID WAS PROPERLY DETERMINED NONRESPONSIVE WHERE REQUIRED DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE SHOWED THAT EQUIPMENT HAD FIXED CRANK CONTROL. PROTEST AS TO ONE ASPECT OF ONE AWARDEE'S RESPONSIVENESS TO IFB AND INQUIRY ?OR DOCUMENTS WHICH LED TO PROTEST OF ANOTHER ASPECT OF BOTH AWARDEES' RESPONSIVENESS COMING ABOUT MONTH AFTER LEARNING OF AWARDS ARE UNTIMELY. E-M PROTESTED THAT ITS BID SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN REJEC...

B-193299: Mar 29, 1979

A firm lodged a double protest. First, the protester alleged that its bid should not have been rejected as nonresponsive; and second, it protested the awards made to two other bidders on the grounds that their bids were nonresponsive. The protester's bid was properly determined nonresponsive as the descriptive literature furnished in the bid indicated that the equipment had a fixed crank control,...