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...