Protest Spotlight

(This regular feature highlights protests decided by the Government Accountability Office.)

Agency: Defense Logistics Agency

Awardee: Bremen-Bowdon Investment Co.

Protester: Omega Apparel

What GAO found: Omega Apparel filed a protest with the GAO over a DLA contract awarded to Bremen-Bowdon for Army men's dress trousers with braid. Though Omega had received a better evaluation, its price of $10.4 million was higher than Bremen-Bowdon's $8.6 million.

Omega argued its proposal should not have received the same past-performance rating as Bremen-Bowdon and contended DLA "essentially converted the best value competition set forth in the solicitation to a lowest-priced, technically-acceptable competition in order to award the contract to Bremen." GAO denied the protest.