https://www.gao.gov/products/140280

B-236631: Dec 26, 1989

A firm protested a General Services Administration (GSA) contract award for roof replacement, contending that: (1) GSA secretly allowed the awardee to deviate from the required specifications; (2) the awardee's bid was nonresponsive; (3) the awardee's low bid was erroneous or ambiguous; (4) the awardee did not submit a properly authorized bid extension letter; and (5) GSA should have withheld awar...

https://www.gao.gov/products/474416

B-236631: Dec 26, 1989

Where bidder was told by project director that he was without authority to grant bidder permission to deviate from solicitation specifications but that bidder could attempt to get specifications changed after award was not an improper "secret" grant of permission to deviate from specifications. Bid is responsive where as submitted it is an offer to perform without exception the exact thing called...