B-232702: Dec 29, 1988

A firm protested a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract award for helicopter parts, contending that DLA denied it an opportunity to compete by failing to timely process its source-approval request. GAO held that: (1) DLA unreasonably denied the protester an opportunity to compete, since it failed to timely act on the protester's source-approval request; and (2) the protester was entitled to rei...

B-232702: Dec 29, 1988

Protest is sustained where agency's unreasonable delay in processing source approval request prevented protester from becoming qualified in time to receive award under request for quotations for helicopter part. Protester is entitled to recover the cost of filing and pursuing its protest. Where the protester was improperly denied a fair opportunity to compete for award. The protester believes that...