B-224491:
Oct 17, 1986
A firm protested an Army contract award for a cardiac defibrillator/monitoring system, contending that the Army should have rejected the awardee's bid as nonresponsive since it failed to include detailed descriptive literature to show its product's compliance with two salient features. GAO held that: (1) the concept of responsiveness generally did not apply to negotiated procurements; and (2) it w...