B-288466,B-288466.2,B-288466.3: Oct 17, 2001

A firm protested the a Department of the Treasury contract award to obtain black and green intaglio ink and varnish for application to new United States paper currency, contending that the agency improperly determined that its green ink failed to meet mandatory health and safety technical evaluation criterion and that the agency failed to subject the awardee's inks and varnish to the testing requi...

B-288466,B-288466.2,B-288466.3: Oct 17, 2001

Protest that contracting agency improperly determined that protester's product failed to meet a mandatory technical evaluation criterion and rejected its proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency's determination was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's stated evaluation criteria. 2. Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to subjec...