B-277260.2: Mar 25, 1998

A firm protested a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) market survey undertaken in response to a sustained protest, contending that NOAA did not conduct a proper market survey as required by applicable regulations, and that NOAA did not consider its fixed price for its software, which meets NOAA requirements. GAO held that NOAA's market survey was not a reasonable method of dete...

B-277260.2: Mar 25, 1998

Which sustained a protest because the agency failed to properly determine whether a section 8(a) contract was awarded at a fair market price. Is not a reasonable method of making this determination because the 8(a) contractor is not performing all of the requirements that the respondents to the survey were requested to price. The USMCC is the United States's component of the International Cospas-S...