B-247081: Apr 22, 1992

A firm protested a Defense General Supply Center (DGSC) contract award for refrigerant recovery units, contending that DGSC improperly conducted a restricted procurement based on an urgency which resulted from a lack of advance planning. GAO held that the urgency that DGSC used to justify the noncompetitive contract award resulted from a lack of advance planning. Accordingly, the protest was susta...

B-247081: Apr 22, 1992

DIGEST: Protest against noncompetitive award of contract for refrigerant recycling units is sustained where record indicates that the "urgency" which was used to justify the noncompetitive approach resulted from the contracting agencies' lack of advance planning. The procurement was conducted under the "unusual and compelling urgency" exception to the requirement for full and open competition unde...