A firm protested a Navy contract award to another firm for minesweeper overhaul, contending that the awardee did not have the necessary facilities to adequately perform the contract. GAO held that it would not consider the protest, since the allegations were matters of contract administration. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

This Office will not review an agency's affirmative determination of responsibility absent a showing of possible bad faith or fraud on the part of procurement officials or that definitive responsibility criteria stated in the solicitation have not been met. Is the most advantageous to the government considering only price and price- related factors specified elsewhere in the solicitation. The soli...