Protest of rejection of equal products offered in response to a brand name or equal procurement for commercial items is sustained where rejection was based on failure of proposal to meet requirements that were not conveyed by the solicitation. For a 360-degree rear projection display system which will be used to simulate the outside view from an air traffic control tower. It did not include the st...

A firm protested a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract award for a 360-degree rear projection display system. GAO found that: (1) NASA improperly determined that the protester's proposal was unacceptable for failing to meet requirements not set forth in the solicitation; and (2) nothing in the protester's proposal indicated that the protester would not meet certain requir...