B-236732:
Dec 27, 1989
A firm protested a Department of Energy (DOE) subcontract award for data storage systems, contending that the awardee's proposed equal system failed to conform to the salient brand-name characteristics in the solicitation. GAO held that the protester failed to show that DOE improperly evaluated the system, since its proposed equal system would also fail to meet the salient characteristics. Accordi...