B-227805: Sep 25, 1987

A firm protested an Air Force contract award to another firm for computer maintenance services, contending that the: (1) awardee misrepresented itself; and (2) Air Force should have awarded it the contract, since its bid was low. The protester also claimed reimbursement for its bid and protest preparation costs. GAO noted that the Air Force conceded that the award was improper, since: (1) the soli...

B-227805: Sep 25, 1987

Agency concedes that award was improper. The protester is entitled to recover the costs of preparing its proposal and of filing and pursuing the protest since it was unreasonably excluded from the competition for the base contract period. Pride contends that the award to NSA was improper since Pride submitted a lower price and NSA received the award only because it misrepresented in its proposal t...