https://www.gao.gov/products/124137

B-212971: May 14, 1984

A firm protested an Army contract award and the exclusion of its proposal from the competitive range as technically unacceptable. The protester contended that the Army acted unreasonably because the omission of its acceptance test procedures was a clerical error which it should have been allowed to correct. GAO will not question an agency's evaluation of a proposal absent a showing that the determ...

https://www.gao.gov/products/439369

B-212971: May 14, 1984

INITIAL PROPOSAL IS PROPERLY EXCLUDED FROM THE COMPETITIVE RANGE WHERE INFORMATION NECESSARY TO EVALUATE THE PROPOSAL WAS OMITTED. 2. PROTEST THAT PROCURING ACTIVITY ARBITRARILY RELAXED SPECIFICATIONS TO MAKE AWARDEE'S PROPOSAL ACCEPTABLE IS WITHOUT MERIT WHERE RFP CONTEMPLATES OFFERORS PROPOSING ALTERNATE SPECIFICATIONS AND AWARDEE PROPOSED SUCH SPECIFICATIONS AND PROVIDED RATIONALE REQUIRED BY T...