B-230171.2: Apr 19, 1988

Seventeen firms protested the General Services Administration's (GSA) rejection of their bids for automatic data processing furniture, contending that GSA improperly excluded them from competition. GAO held that the protest was academic, since GSA took corrective actions to: (1) amend the solicitation; (2) allow the protesters to submit test data; and (3) reconsider all rejected proposals. Accordi...

B-230171.2: Apr 19, 1988

The protesters argue that these rejections were improper. The agency states that it has issued an amendment to the RF deleting that portion of the solicitation calling for the rejection of initial offers where adequate and complete test data is not furnished therewith. The agency also intends to reconsider all proposals which were initially rejected. To allow offerors to submit test data which wer...