A firm protested the Navy's rejection of its bid for building repair and alteration, contending that the Navy improperly determined that its sureties were not responsible. GAO held that the Navy reasonably based its nonresponsibility determination on: (1) the protester's failure to provide sufficient information for verifying the sureties' financial resources; and (2) an ongoing criminal investiga...

PROCUREMENT - Contractor Qualification - Responsibility - Contracting officer findings - Negative determination - GAO review PROCUREMENT - Sealed Bidding - Bid guarantees - Sureties - Acceptability - Information submission DIGEST: Contracting agency reasonably found that bidder was nonresponsible based on a finding that the bidder's individual sureties on its bid bond were unacceptable due to bidd...