https://www.gao.gov/products/143109

B-241386: Feb 4, 1991

A firm protested the Air Force's rejection of its bid for carpet tile, contending that the Air Force: (1) improperly rejected its product as noncompliant with several salient characteristics; and (2) failed to provide it with a sample. GAO held that the: (1) Air Force properly determined that the protester's product was not sufficiently similar to the specified product; and (2) protester untimely...

https://www.gao.gov/products/420567

B-241386: Feb 4, 1991

Protest of rejection of bid offering carpet tiles as equal to specified tiles is denied where agency properly determined that sample submitted was not sufficiently similar to the specified pattern in terms of color and design. Allegations raised for the first time in protester's comments on agency report are untimely where based on information in letters received by protester more than 10 working...