B-232147.2: Nov 1, 1988

A firm protested a Navy solicitation for a strip-chart recorder, contending that the brand-name specifications were unduly restrictive. GAO would not review the protest, since the protester untimely presented this argument in response to the Navy's report on its initial protest against the Navy's use of design-type specifications. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

B-232147.2: Nov 1, 1988

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - GAO procedures - Protest timeliness - Apparent solicitation improprieties DIGEST: Where protester initially protests generally that performance-type specification should have been included in solicitation instead of design- type specification. Presents for the first time in its comments on the agency report its detailed argument as to why its item is acceptable without...