https://www.gao.gov/products/137814

B-233153: Jan 25, 1989

A firm protested the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) rejection of its two bids for a pipe-cutting machine system as nonresponsive, contending that: (1) NASA should have awarded it the contract, since its bids were low; (2) NASA failed to provide it with a copy of the technical evaluation; (3) GAO failed to release to it the NASA protest report; (4) certain solicitation speci...

https://www.gao.gov/products/437692

B-233153: Jan 25, 1989

The product offered by the alternate bid was clearly noncompliant with the specifications. Protest that specifications are defective is untimely and will not be considered on the merits where it was filed with the General Accounting Office more than 10 working days after the agency took adverse action on the protester's agency-level protest. The IFB was issued on July 14. Bids were due on Septembe...