B-276889: Jul 1, 1997

A firm protested a Department of Commerce contract award for conference facilities, contending that it was improperly excluded from the competitive range. GAO held that Commerce properly excluded the protester from the competitive range after it determined that the protester's proposed facility was outside the solicitation's geographic proximity requirement. Accordingly, the protest was denied...

B-276889: Jul 1, 1997

The protester's proposal was properly excluded from the competitive range after agency evaluators determined that the protester's offered facility was located beyond the geographic area specified in the solicitation. Was improperly excluded from the competitive range because the agency erroneously concluded that the hotel was located outside the geographic limitation set forth in the RFP. [1] We d...