Postal Purchasing Protest Decisions
1996 Digest
Solicitation No. 082530-96-A-0154
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTRACTING, INC., P.S. Protest No. 96-23, Febuary 19, 1997 HTM | PDF
Protest against removal from prequalified list for lobby renovation contracts is denied; protester’s less than satisfactory performance on first phase of work justifies its exclusion from subsequent phases.
Solicitation No. 102590-96-A-0097
GRAND RAPIDS LABEL COMPANY, INC., P.S. Protest No. 96-22, January 31, 1997 HTM | PDF
Protest against award of construction contract is denied; no harm resulted from exclusion of protester's offer from those best technically qualified, since solicitation provided for selection from acceptable offers on the basis of price, including aggregate offers on this solicitation and two others, and awardee's aggregate offers were lower than any combination of offers including protester's offer.
Solicitation No. 482980-96-A-0356, Solicitation No. 482980-96-A-0384
ED WILSON, INC, P.S. Protest Nos. 96-18, 96-19, Febuary 4, 1997 HTM | PDF
Protest against removal from prequalified list for lobby renovation contracts is denied; protester’s less than satisfactory performance on first phase of work justifies its exclusion from subsequent phases.
Solicitation Nos. 052684-96-A-0128; A-0130
CUSTOM PRODUCTION MANUFACTURING, INC., P.S. Protest No. 96-17, October 11, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against nonresponsibility determination is dismissed in part and denied in part where the determination was based on substantial evidence and was not arbitrary or unreasonable.
Ordering Agreement No. 102590-96-H-H001
ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION , P.S. Protest No. 96-16, October 25, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against noncompetitive issuance of ordering agreement for automatic call distribution systems is sustained; "unusual and compelling urgency" cited in justification is not demonstrated, and price advantage obtained by incorporating pricing from vendor's larger contract with another agency does not establish that purchase is in the interest of the Postal Service where other sources exist, but their technical or price alternatives were not investigat-ed or evaluated.
Solicitation No. 412735-96-A-0221
FLUIDICS, INC., P.S. Protest No. 96-15 HTM | PDF
Protest against nonresponsibility determination is denied where it was not an abuse of discretion for the contracting officer to base the determination on information indicating that recent performance on similar contract was poor.
Solicitation No. 980-75-96
LEWIS F. RICE, P.S. Protest No. 96-14 HTM | PDF
Protest against rejection of all mail transportation bids as excessive in price is denied; contracting officer could properly determine that offers more than twice those of comparable routes were excessive.
Solicitation Nos. 052684-96-A-V107, -V108, -V109
FARNHAM SECURITY, INC. , P.S. Protest No. 96-13, August 2, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest of decision to award contract for security guard services subsequent to initial protest to contracting officer is dismissed as untimely received more than ten working days after adverse action on initial protest or after basis for protest should have been known
Solicitation No. 332495-96-A-0058
CIRCLE-A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. , P.S. Protest No. 96-12, July 12, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against award of contract for construction project is denied where contracting officer's determination that protester's proposal was technically unacceptable for failure to identify three prior projects of similar size was reasonable
Solicitation No. 102590-96-A-0076
GUSTAFSON ENTERPRISES, INC. , P.S. Protest No. 96-10, July 24, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against award of an acrylic retail fixtures supply contract to higher-priced offeror is denied where protester's low technical score precluded its proposal from being considered the best value.
Award No. 089480-96-P-0078
CLEVE'S SPORTING GOODS AND APPAREL, P.S. Protest No. 96-09, July 22, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest contending that contracting officer improp-erly applied excessive standard of responsibility to offeror is denied; offeror's conditioning of offer on award by date which had passed when determination was made was sufficient to support the determination
Solicitation No. 800-22-96
G.T. TRANSPORTATION INC. , P.S. Protest No. 96-07, June 18, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest contending that contracting officer improp-erly found bidder nonresponsible for highway transportation contract is denied; reasonable basis for determination has been shown.
Solicitation No. 198525-96-0001
P.J. COMPANY , P.S. Protest No. 96-06, June 14, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against nonresponsibility determination is denied where contracting officer reasonably based it on lack of required quality control system and previous poor performance on postal contracts.
Solicitation No. 162745-96-A-0103
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SERVICES , P.S. Protest No. 96-04, April 15, 1996 HTM | PDF
Protest against terms of solicitation for cafeteria services is denied; Randolph-Sheppard Act and its implementing regulations do not support State Licensing Agency's contentions that vending machines which comprise part of the solicited cafeteria should be made available for blind operation under license or that income from those machines should be distributed to the blind licensee.
Solicitation No. 162745-96-A-0103
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SERVICES , P.S. Protest No. 96-04, Reconsideration, May 7, 1996 HTM | PDF
Request for reconsideration is denied where grounds for reconsideration reiterate contentions previously made in the course of the protest or present new grounds which could have been, but were not, previously raised.