https://www.gao.gov/products/A07019

B-275423: Feb 20, 1997

The Ensign-Bickford Company (EBCo) protests the issuance of a purchase order to Shock Tube Systems, Inc. (STS) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NOO164-96-Q-0299, issued by the Department of the Navy for detonators. EBCo contends that the agency failed to provide it with a copy of an amendment and improperly agreed to the awardee's request to include in its contract a Federal Acquisition Regu...

https://www.gao.gov/products/406338

B-275423: Feb 20, 1997

Is denied where the protester does not allege that its quotation would have been different had the clause been included in the solicitation and accordingly there is no basis for finding that the protester was competitively prejudiced. Which is at issue in this protest. The agency's requiring technical activity advised her that the phrase "brand name or equal" should have appeared after the EBCo pa...