https://www.gao.gov/products/140965

B-237759: Mar 23, 1990

A firm protested a National Library of Medicine (NLM) contract award for a computer system, contending that: (1) NLM improperly deemed its proposal technically unacceptable; and (2) the soliticitation did not identify all salient characteristics of the required equipment. GAO held that: (1) NLM simply listed brand-name items it intended to order without notifying offerers of the required salient c...

https://www.gao.gov/products/436809

B-237759: Mar 23, 1990

Potential offerors were advised that they must "provide all the above listed items and meet all specifications listed.". Solbourne was requested to submit a more detailed response which could be reasonably evaluated. The evaluators noted that Solbourne's SMD controller was approximately equivalent to Sun's "mid-range" SPARC server 370 model. Which is part of the specified SPARC server 390 model. T...