B-230209: Mar 23, 1988

A firm protested a Navy solicitation for pallet trucks, contending that the Navy: (1) required unreasonable delivery terms for first-article testing and production; (2) improperly used a two-step sealed bidding process; and (3) mishandled the procurement. GAO held that the protester: (1) failed to show that the delivery requirements were unreasonable; and (2) untimely filed its protests concerning...

B-230209: Mar 23, 1988

Protest that delivery requirements are impossible to attain for any bidder but the incumbent. Is denied where agency presents a reasonable explanation in support of the delivery requirements as necessary to meet its minimum needs and protester fails to show that those requirements are clearly unreasonable. Protest questioning the propriety of the two-step sealed bidding method of procurement is un...