A firm protested the terms of an Army solicitation for trash collection services, contending that the requirements for an individual household trash weighing system and the mandatory use of a particular landfill site are unnecessary to meet the Army's needs. GAO held that the terms are not unduly restrictive because the requisite weighing system and the landfill site are available to all prospecti...

Requirements that offerors employ an individual household weighing system (in order to provide the agency with data on the trash and recycling habits of family housing residents) and utilize a specific landfill site are not unduly restrictive where the requisite weighing system and the landfill site are available to all prospective offerors. Dunning asserts that the requirements for an individual...