B-230958: Apr 26, 1988

A firm protested the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) rejection of its bid for a strip chart recorder under a brand-name-or-equal solicitation. GAO held that NASA properly rejected the protester's bid as nonresponsive, since the: (1) protester's equipment needed modification to meet the required salient characteristics; and (2) protester's descriptive literature was insuffici...

B-230958: Apr 26, 1988

Therefore was nonresponsive. We dismiss the protest without requiring NASA to submit a report since it is apparent from Western's submission that the protest has no legal merit. NASA rejected Western's bid as nonresponsive because it did not show that Western was in full compliance with the salient characteristics listed in the IFB. Descriptive literature is required to establish. A bidder's belie...