A firm protested the Government Printing Office's (GPO) rejection of its bid for printing, contending that GPO unreasonably based its nonresponsibility determination on an improperly administered preaward test. GAO held that GPO reasonably determined that the protester was nonresponsible, since it failed a properly administered preaward test. Accordingly, the protest was denied...

DIGEST: Protest against contracting officer's negative responsibility determination is denied where the determination was based on the protester's failure of a preaward test. HCG contends that the determination that it was nonresponsible was not reasonable. The IFB was issued on July 25. The requirement was divided into two categories. Category I was for forms composition and Category II was for t...