B-277133: Sep 4, 1997

A firm protested the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) issuance of a delivery order for direct access storage devices (DASD), contending that the awardee's proposed DASD system does not satisfy two salient characteristics set forth in the solicitation. GAO held that, although compliance with storage capacity and access time requirements could only be determined with certainty once the DASD system...

B-277133: Sep 4, 1997

DIGEST Protest that agency improperly issued delivery order for noncompliant direct access storage devices (DASD) system is denied where. Although compliance with stated storage capacity and access time requirements could only be determined with certainty once DASD system was installed and used in the processing of the agency's particular data mix. The purchase order was issued on the basis of res...