B-228190.3: Nov 2, 1987

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against an Air Force solicitation for spectrometers. GAO had dismissed the protest, since the protester contended that the solicitation specifications were not sufficiently restrictive. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that the: (1) procurement violated Air Force regulations; and (2) required instruments were inco...

B-228190.3: Nov 2, 1987

General Accounting Office will not review a protest that specifications are not restrictive enough to meet the government's minimum needs. Baird alleged that the procurement of any untested "state of-the-art" system will have an adverse effect on the Department of Defense Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP). The FAS-2C system is the only system that is compatible with the systems currently in use. T...