A firm requested reconsideration of its denied protest against the Navy's rejection of its bid for reports processing services. GAO had held that the Navy properly rejected the protester's bid, since a Navy investigation concluded that the protester improperly obtained, or attempted to obtain, proprietary proposal information from another offeror. In its request for reconsideration, the protester...

PROCUREMENT - Competitive Negotiation - Contracting officer - Duties Competitive system integrity DIGEST: A contracting officer may properly protect the integrity of the procurement system by disqualifying from the competition a firm which engaged in improper business conduct which may have afforded the firm an unfair competitive advantage. While the protester's request for reconsideration was pen...