B-252595.3: Aug 9, 1993

A firm claimed reimbursement for its protest costs pursuant to its protest against an Air Force solicitation for aircraft engine nozzles, contending that: (1) the Air Force withheld a relevant document from its agency report which would have shown that it was not the low bidder; and (2) award of protest costs would be an appropriate sanction, since it would not have pursued its protest if it had k...

B-252595.3: Aug 9, 1993

Which are only authorized where the protest supports a finding that a procurement statute or regulation was violated. 1 day before proposals were due under the subject RFP. Award was to be made under the RFP to the low-priced. To which its counsel and an expert consultant were admitted. Johnson claims that such sanction is appropriate in this case since the Air Force's exclusion of the abstract of...