B-208876.2: Dec 20, 1983

A firm requested reconsideration of a decision in which GAO denied its protest of a Department of Agriculture (USDA) solicitation cancellation because the protester failed to show that the contracting officer acted arbitrarily or capriciously in determining that cancellation and resolicitation of the requirements were necessary. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that ther...

B-208876.2: Dec 20, 1983

DIGEST: AN INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF GLASS IN TWO GREENHOUSES WHICH OMITTED A MATERIAL REQUIREMENT FOR SNOW AND WIND LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY WAS DEFECTIVE AND WAS PROPERLY CANCELED. THE MINIMUM NEEDS OF THE GOVERNMENT WERE NOT MET. THE CONTRACTING OFFICER STATES THAT SHE DISCOVERED THAT THE SPECIFICATIONS IN THE IFB WERE DEFECTIVE IN FAILING TO SPECIFY THE OVERALL MINIMUM SNOW AND W...