https://www.gao.gov/products/134694

B-228276.2: Dec 17, 1987

A firm protested a National Institutes of Health (NIH) contract award for a laser scanning system, contending that NIH: (1) improperly rejected its bid, since its product complied with the solicitation's salient requirements; and (2) should have awarded it the contract, since it was the low bidder. GAO held that NIH properly: (1) determined that the protester's bid was nonresponsive, since its des...

https://www.gao.gov/products/449378

B-228276.2: Dec 17, 1987

Product as nonresponsive for failure to meet one of the salient characteristics of the brand-name product is not objectionable where an important qualifying phrase found in solicitation's specification was omitted from the protester's otherwise identical specification for its own product and where descriptive brochures submitted with protester's bid reasonably could be read. The solicitation speci...