The protester and awardee requested reconsideration of a decision which recommended that the Marine Corps resolicit for time domain reflectometers. GAO had sustained a protest against the contract award and recommended resolicitation with revised specifications. The awardee contended that its equipment, which the Corps deemed nonresponsive, met the Corps' minimum needs and that resolicitation woul...

Is appropriate where solicitation requirements exceeded agency's minimum needs and ambiguity in solicitation. We found that Biddle's offer of its name-brand model 431 TDR was nonresponsive to the first salient characteristic set forth in the IFB. We took into consideration the Marine Corps' determination that Biddle's model 431 TDR in fact will satisfy its minimum needs at a price ($1. We conclude...