B-227002: Jul 23, 1987

A firm protested the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) rejection of its low bid as nonresponsive under a solicitation for copper tubing, contending that: (1) it submitted the low bid and sufficiently indicated its agreement to the solicitation requirements; and (2) DLA failed to send it a solicitation package. GAO held that: (1) DLA properly determined that the protester's bid was ambiguous and non...

B-227002: Jul 23, 1987

A letter bid that includes preprinted terms and conditions that vary from the terms and conditions in the solicitation is nonresponsive. Agency's possible failure to solicit potential bidder is not a basis for sustaining protest where there is no evidence agency deliberately sought to exclude bidder from competition and prices received are considered reasonable. DLA rejected Ansonia's letter bid a...