B-240990: Jan 14, 1991

A firm protested a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) purchase order for a digital dictaphone system, contending that VA unreasonably determined that an alternate product met the brand-name requirements listed under a federal supply schedule contract. GAO held that VA properly purchased an alternative product, which: (1) cost less than the protester's product; and (2) met the salient functional r...

B-240990: Jan 14, 1991

After determining that the alternative source's equipment was lower priced and functionally equivalent to the CBD -listed equipment. Even though the alternative source's equipment may not have some of the capabilities of the CBD listed equipment. Where the allegedly missing capabilities are not named salient characteristics in the CBD notice or are provided by a different but functionally equivale...