B-233599.2: Jan 9, 1989

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against the Navy's extension of a contract for engineering services and materials. GAO had held that the protest was academic, since the Navy planned no further contract extensions after expiration of the previous extensions. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that the Navy should suspend the contract pending the ou...

B-233599.2: Jan 9, 1989

Dismissal of protest as academic is affirmed on reconsideration where protester initially challenged agency's alleged intent to extend contract without competition. Requirement that contract performance be suspended is statutory procedural requirement designed. Research believes the Navy may not have suspended performance as it requested. The requirement that contract performance be suspended is a...