B-277069: Aug 29, 1997

A firm protested two General Services Administration (GSA) contract awards for primer coatings, contending that: (1) GSA denied it the opportunity to compete by failing to provide it with a copy of the solicitation; and (2) the award prices were unreasonable. GAO held that: (1) the protester did not diligently pursue its protest of GSA's failure to solicit it; and (2) GSA did not properly determin...

B-277069: Aug 29, 1997

DIGEST Protest is sustained where agency provides no rational basis for its determination of price reasonableness of contract awards for primer coatings at prices more than double the award prices under the prior procurement for the same items. Crawford contends that it was improperly not given the opportunity to compete for these items. That the award prices were unreasonable. That the contract p...