A firm protested two Defense Industrial Supply Center (DISC) purchase orders for threaded fasteners, contending that DISC improperly denied it an opportunity to compete by failing to promptly consider its request for approval as a qualified source for the screws. GAO held that: (1) there was no evidence of any unreasonable material delay on the part of DISC in processing the protester's applicatio...

Protest that agency unreasonably delayed review of protester's application for qualified suppliers list (QSL) is denied where delay was related to agency's concerns (1) that there may be an identity between the protester and a contractor that had been debarred on the basis of lack of business integrity. (2) whether the protester's products were traceable to a QSL manufacturer or supplier. Both RFQ...