B-225793: Jul 6, 1987

A firm protested a Department of Energy (DOE) cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award for modelling and forecasting support services, contending that: (1) the awardee falsely certified its corporate status; (2) the awardee intentionally misrepresented its labor rates; and (3) DOE applied different evaluation criteria and requested different levels of supporting documentation from different bidders. GAO...

B-225793: Jul 6, 1987

There is no basis to object to the award of a contract to a corporation which at the time of submission of proposals and award had been automatically terminated because of the apparently inadvertent failure to pay an annual registration fee but took steps to become reinstated immediately when the situation was brought to its attention by a protesting competitor after award. Because the same firm w...