https://www.gao.gov/products/142698

B-240421: Nov 9, 1990

A firm protested an Air Force contract award for housing upgrade, contending that the: (1) awardee's bid exceeded the solicitation's statutory limit; and (2) Air Force improperly requested a waiver of the statutory cost limitation. GAO held that the: (1) solicitation provided for the possibility of the Air Force's requesting a waiver of the statutory cost limitation; and (2) protester prematurely...

https://www.gao.gov/products/471726

B-240421: Nov 9, 1990

Such waiver is authorized by statute and regulation. Protest that statements submitted by the agency in its request to the Under Secretary of Defense for a waiver of statutory cost limitation on improvements on military family housing do not state the necessary grounds and are insufficient to justify a waiver is premature because no decision concerning the waiver has been made and no contract has...