A firm protested the General Services Administration's (GSA) rejection of its bid samples for plastic bags, contending that GSA did not evaluate its bid samples in accordance with the solicitation requirements. GAO held that the protester failed to prove that GSA did not evaluate the protester's bid samples in accordance with the solicitation requirements. Accordingly, the protest was denied...

DIGEST: Absent a showing that the contracting agency's tests on product samples were defective or improperly conducted. Himolene alleges that the samples were not evaluated fairly by the GSA laboratory or in accord with the requirements of the solicitation. Offerors therefore were instructed to submit ten representative samples of each type of bag upon which an offer was made for testing to determ...