B-237120.2: Oct 23, 1989

A firm protested the Navy's rejection of its bid and subsequent proposed contract award for strip-chart recorders, contending that: (1) a product specification improperly restricted competition; (2) the Navy failed to allow it to make two minor technical proposal changes; and (3) the Navy improperly used negotiated, rather than sealed-bid procedures. GAO would not review the protest, since the pro...

B-237120.2: Oct 23, 1989

Where prior protest of specification requirement was dismissed as untimely because not raised prior to the due date for receipt of proposals. General Accounting Office will not consider the same issue when reiterated by the protester in its subsequent protest of a proposed award to another offeror. Protester is not an interested party to protest that agency should have permitted it to remedy two a...