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B-409121 1 (2013-12-24)

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          G     A    O                                                  Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                                of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: SAMCO Antennas, Inc.

           File:       B-409121

           Date:       December 24, 2013

           Don G. Sanford for the protester.
           Sheryl L. Rakestraw, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency.
           Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the
           General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest is denied where agency reasonably concluded that protester's product failed
           to satisfy solicitation's required salient characteristics.
           DECISION

           SAMCO Antennas, Inc., of Fort Worth, Texas, protests the failure of the U.S.
           Geological Survey (USGS) to issue it an order under request for quotations (RFQ)
           No. G1 3PS00575, for Yagi antennas for geospatial operational environmental
           (GOE) satellites. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of its
           quotation was unreasonable.

           We deny the protest.

           The antennas sought here are used to transmit hydrological data from collection
           sites, often located in remote back country, to GEO satellites, which then relay the
           data to USGS scientists. According to the agency, the antennas are a critical
           component of field data transmission systems and have been procured by the
           agency and used by USGS scientists for decades.

           The RFQ, as amended, sought quotations for a base quantity of 600 antennas, and
           two optional quantities of 400 antennas each. The solicitation identified the salient
           characteristics of the desired items.' Of relevance to this protest, two of the

           1 While the solicitation indicated that the antennas were sought on a brand name or
           equal basis, the RFQ did not identify a brand name item.

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