B-200678:
Jul 13, 1981
A firm protested the award of a contract by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to supply a road grader. BIA rejected the protester's low bid as nonresponsive because descriptive data submitted with the bid indicated that the equipment offered would produce only 168 net flywheel horsepower, not 170 horsepower as specified in the invitation for bids (IFB). The protester believed that the rejection o...