B-233642: Feb 13, 1989

A firm protested a Navy contract award for stores management system components, contending that the: (1) awardee failed to timely furnish it with the agreed-upon technical data package; and (2) Navy should have ensured that the awardee provided it the necessary materials. GAO held that: (1) it would not consider the protest, which was a private dispute; and (2) the protester untimely protested the...

B-233642: Feb 13, 1989

PROCUREMENT - Bid Protests - Private disputes - GAO review DIGEST: General Accounting Office will not consider protest that protester lost the competition because competitor failed to deliver a technical data package to protester in a timely manner as specified by a private contract between the parties and that the price quoted by the competitor for materials was higher than that quoted by the com...