B-276559.3: Jul 10, 1997

A firm claimed reimbursement for the costs of its protests against an Army solicitation for a portable pressure washer, contending that the Army took corrective action only in response to its protests that the solicitation was defective and restrictive. GAO held that, in one case, the Army had amended the solicitation before the protester filed its protest, and in the other case, the Army took cor...

B-276559.3: Jul 10, 1997

DIGEST General Accounting Office (GAO) will not recommend payment of protest costs where the agency amended the protested request for quotations to delete a requirement objected to by the protester prior to the filing of the protest at GAO and. After the protest was subsequently amended to object to a new requirement. Contending that it was written around the features of the specified brand name a...