DIGEST: ORIGINAL DECISION IS AFFIRMED WHERE REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION PRESENTS INFORMATION WHICH WAS KNOWN TO PROTESTER AND COULD HAVE BEEN PRESENTED IN CONNECTION WITH ITS INITIAL PROTEST OR ARGUMENTS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY CONSIDERED AND REJECTED. THE SOLICITATION ALSO CONTAINED A SEPARATE CLAUSE REQUIRING BIDDERS TO CERTIFY THAT THE ITEM OFFERED WILL BE OBTAINED FROM ONLY THE APPROVED SOURCE I...

A firm requested reconsideration of a GAO decision which denied its protest with respect to the Army's rejection of its bid as nonresponsive. In its initial decision, GAO found that the protester's failure to complete a control certification was a material deviation which required the Army's rejection of its bid as nonresponsive, and it held that a bid that fails to include the certification may n...