B-210168.2: Jul 6, 1983

DIGEST: PRIOR DECISION DISMISSING PORTION OF PROTEST AS UNTIMELY IS AFFIRMED ON RECONSIDERATION BECAUSE PROTESTER HAS NOT SHOWN THAT DECISION WAS BASED ON ERRORS OF FACT OR LAW. TRANSIAC ARGUES THAT WE SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED ITS ARGUMENT THAT LECROY'S BID WAS NONRESPONSIVE BECAUSE ITS PRODUCT DID NOT MEET VARIOUS SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN THE BRAND NAME OR EQUAL INVITATION...

B-210168.2: Jul 6, 1983

A firm requested reconsideration of an earlier decision which dismissed in part and denied in part its protest of the award of a contract by the Defense Nuclear Agency. In its initial protest, the protester argued that the awardee's bid was nonresponsive because it did not meet various salient characteristics set forth in the brand name or equal invitation for bids; GAO dismissed this portion of t...