B-213459.2: Nov 2, 1984

The Navy requested reconsideration of a decision in which GAO sustained a firm's protest that its bid was improperly rejected as nonresponsive based on its failure to acknowledge an amendment. In the prior decision, GAO found that, since the amendment was not material, the protester's bid was responsive to the invitation for bids (IFB) and the Navy had improperly awarded the contract to another fi...

B-213459.2: Nov 2, 1984

BIDS - INVITATION FOR BIDS - AMBIGUITY ALLEGATION - NOT SUSTAINED - ONLY ONE REASONABLE INTERPRETATION DIGEST: INITIAL GAO DECISION FINDING AN IFB AMENDMENT NOT MATERIAL BASED ON THE "MOST REASONABLE" READING OF THE IFB IS AFFIRMED WHERE THE AGENCY ARGUES THERE ARE OTHER REASONABLE INTERPRETATIONS OF THE IFB WHICH WOULD RENDER THE AMENDMENT MATERIAL. THOSE INTERPRETATIONS ARE NOT AS REASONABLE AS...