CONTRACTS - PROTESTS - GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE PROCEDURES - RECONSIDERATION REQUESTS - ERROR OF FACT OR LAW - NOT ESTABLISHED DIGEST: PRIOR DECISION IS AFFIRMED ON RECONSIDERATION WHERE PROTESTER HAS NOT SHOWN ANY ERRORS OF LAW OR FACT WHICH WARRANT REVERSAL OF THE DECISION. PMS CONTENDED THE IFB WAS UNDULY RESTRICTIVE OF COMPETITION. WHICH WE RECOGNIZED IS PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING...

A firm requested reconsideration of a decision which denied its protest of a Navy invitation for bids (IFB) that limited the materials to be used and excluded its product. GAO held that the contracting agency was primarily responsible for determining its minimum needs, and the protester failed to affirmatively prove its case that the IFB was unduly restrictive of competition. The protester contend...