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B-193032 1 (1978-11-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgpb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i Sr? *I j * */ -J / , 0! /J 2 'VTHE COMPTROLLER WENSPRAL DECISION 1.A;/.,o THE UNITED G rATESB tTW/.BHINOTON, D.C. 205140 B-193032 DATE: November 3, 1978 MATTER OF: Ilicolet Technology Corporation DIGEST: GAO will not investigate or review protest challenqin9 offeror's method of compliance with representation made in bid that product offered was domestic for purpose of Buy American Act. Nicolet Technology Corporation (Nicolet) protests the award c6fa contract by the Department of Commerce to Brucker Instruments, Inc. (Brucker), under solicittition 1a. EO-AO1-78-00-3604 for a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The protester contends that the awardee is a foreign firm which will furnish a foreign made product even though it represented in its response to the solicitation that it would furnish a dorih&tic sorce end prodUct for purposes of the'3uy American Act. Nicolet requests our Office to investigate and review Brucker's method of compliance with the obliga- tion assumed by its Buy American certificate. The determination of whethe complying with its obligation as American certificate is a matter tion, which is for resolution by the cotracting activity rather have held that protests seeking an offeror's intended method of certification should not be cons with certain exceptions not appl Thorson Tool Comoany, B-188271, CPD 154jandicases cited 'therein hr a contractor is sumed by its Buy- of contract administra- the contractor and than this Office. We nn investigation of compliance with its idered by this 'Office, icible here. See March 1, 1977, 77-1 b, d 'A ,s~ ~ FILE: L.. I 1 ;slop,

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