B-231969: Sep 13, 1988

A firm protested a Navy contract award for a radio fire alarm system, contending that the: (1) awardee could not comply with specifications requiring an approved system; and (2) Navy improperly revived the awardee's expired bid. GAO held that the: (1) protester failed to show that the Navy made its affirmative determination of the awardee's responsibility fraudulently or in bad faith; (2) awardee...

B-231969: Sep 13, 1988

The General Accounting Office will not review an affirmative determination of responsibility absent a showing of possible fraud or bad faith on the part of the procurement officials or that definitive responsibility criteria in the solicitation were misapplied. TLC protested to the Navy that King-Fisher was not a small business and that it would be unable to comply with certain specifications in t...