https://www.gao.gov/products/140301

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...

https://www.gao.gov/products/437260

B-236732: Dec 27, 1989

Contracting officials have treated both offerors equally and there is no basis to sustain protest against award. Was submitted by Fedmark. Each pair of disk drives was concatenated. Award was therefore made to Fedmark on August 1. Then a concatenated unit comprised of the 2 linked physical disk drives will have an overall MTBF one-half that of the individual disk drives (i.e. 15. " it is satisfied...