https://www.gao.gov/products/403585

B-285395: Aug 24, 2000

DIGEST Protest that agency improperly awarded a small business set-aside contract to a source offering a foreign product is sustained because such set-asides are limited to sources supplying domestically-produced products. PCI argues that Day Leather's offer of imported leather from Brazil is ineligible for award because the solicitation required domestic leather. Inc. is a wholly-owned government...

https://www.gao.gov/products/164120

B-285395: Aug 24, 2000

A firm protested a Federal Prison Industries, Inc.'s (UNICOR) contract award for leather, contending that the awardee's offer was ineligible for award because the solicitation required domestic leather. GAO held that: (1) UNICOR improperly awarded the contract to the awardee, since the solicitation clearly stated that domesticallly produced products were a requirement; and (2) the only bidder prop...