B-227162: Sep 25, 1987

A firm protested the General Services Administration's (GSA) contract award methods under a solicitation for nonflaming enamel, contending that: (1) parallel contracting led prospective contractors to propose higher prices; (2) GSA purposely employed parallel contracting to avoid doing business with it; (3) GSA should have used sealed bidding rather than negotiated procurement; and (4) the solicit...

B-227162: Sep 25, 1987

Protest against parallel contracting (i.e. division of award between two low offerors) is sustained where contracting agency fails to demonstrate reasonable basis for its choice of this method of award. Protest against agency's use of negotiation procedures rather than sealed bidding is denied where agency reasonably decided to make parallel awards to the two low offerors and. As is required where...