B-260778.4: Jul 8, 1996

A firm requested reconsideration of its denied protests of an affirmed Air Force contract award for deployable integrated mobile hospital tent systems. GAO had held that the: (1) Air Force reasonably determined that the awardee met the solicitation's definitive responsibility criteria; (2) Air Force reasonably determined that the awardee was financially capable of performing the contract; and (3)...

B-260778.4: Jul 8, 1996

Request for reconsideration of prior decision is denied where request either restates arguments raised earlier and disagrees with the original decision. The question was whether the contracting officer reasonably determined that TVI's sales of soft shelters alone and/or its sales of targets and decoys were sales of "similar items" for the purpose of this satisfying this criterion. Since the contra...