B-276675: Jul 10, 1997

A firm protested the Air Force's cancellation of a purchase order for books, contending that the: (1) cancellation of the original purchase order was unjustified; and (2) issuance of the second solicitation resulted in an impermissible auction, since its price on the first solicitation was exposed to the other bidders. GAO held that: (1) the cancellation of the purchase order was justified, since...

B-276675: Jul 10, 1997

DIGEST Protest against cancellation of purchase order is denied where item description in request for quotations misstated the agency's actual needs. Therefore were prejudiced by the error. Quotations were received as follows: CLIN 0001 CLIN 0002 Total Firm A $ 400.00 $1. Whereupon he called the publisher and learned that the item desired was actually a book/video set. The contracting officer issu...