B-274288.5: Jun 13, 1997

A firm protested an Air Force contract award for computerized multimedia presentation systems, contending that the Air Force improperly failed to seek clarification of a clerical error its proposal. GAO held that: (1) both the Air Force-determined error and the protester's claimed clerical error, which were not the same, had a substantive impact on the technical acceptability of the protester's pr...

B-274288.5: Jun 13, 1997

DIGEST Where award without discussions was contemplated by solicitation and two technically acceptable proposals were received. Without seeking correction of an apparent error in third offeror's proposal because the error was substantive and could not be corrected without discussions. Award was originally made to Federal Services. Offerors were expected to submit initial offers containing the offe...