United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-09-16 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:B-272067 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-272067 P0b002ee18fd46b1e f:272067 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-272067 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-272067 B-272067 Comptroller General Decision 1. Language in synopsis of proposed source approved procurement inviting potential offerors to submit source approval requests did not guarantee that agency possessed data from the original equipment manufacturer sufficient to determine whether protester's reverse engineered product would be equivalent to the approved product.<p/>2. Protest that delay in providing details of the reasons for disapproving protester's source approval request resulted in competitive prejudice is denied where protester alleges only that, had it known the reasons earlier, it would have pursued commercial markets for its product in lieu of attempting to supply the product to the government. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-272067/html/GAOREPORTS-B-272067.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-272067/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-272067.pdf GAO/B-272067 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-272067 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-272067; Kitco, Inc.;