McLain Line, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• contracting officer's acceptance of a bid proposal that was not fully responsive did not constitute abuse of discretion
• involving the Navy rescinding a bid contract and awarding it to a different bidder
• only where agency action has “no rational basis” or upon a showing of “clear illegality” may federal court enjoin government procurement decision
• permissible for an agency to accept a bid having a computation formula different from the one contained in the solicitation proposal where difference was of form, not substance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).