https://www.gao.gov/products/138059

B-233090: Feb 22, 1989

A firm protested a State Department contract award for aircraft operational and maintenance support, contending that State: (1) failed to acknowledge the wide variance in bid prices that reflected the offerers' lack of common understanding of the requirements; and (2) conducted a flawed cost-realism analysis. GAO held that: (1) the solicitation and its amendments did not clearly specify the number...

https://www.gao.gov/products/421143

B-233090: Feb 22, 1989

Protest is sustained where agency failed to discuss with competitive range offerors the number of aircraft to be deployed under cost-type contract for aircraft maintenance in spite of evidence in the proposals that the offerors had widely divergent conceptions of the number of aircraft to be deployed and of the costs required to perform the contract. We agree with the protester that the selection...