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B-412185.2,B-412185.3,B-412186.2,B-412186.3 1 (2016-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO VL ui Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. - -. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pitney Bowes, Inc. B-412185.2; B-412185.3; B-412186.2; B-412186.3 May 6, 2016 William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester. Andrew J. Mohr, Esq., Daniel Strouse, Esq., and Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for Neopost USA, Inc., the intervenor. Jerry S. Hiett, Esq., and Robert D. English, Esq., Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest contentions that the agency did not reasonably evaluate the awardee's quotations of equal products under brand name or equal solicitations is denied where the solicitations lacked salient characteristics and the products accepted as equal were not shown to be significantly different from the brand name products. DECISION Pitney Bowes, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, protests the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) award of two contracts to Neopost USA, Inc., of Milford, Connecticut, under solicitation No. DJF-15-2100-PR-0020579 (No. 20579) and solicitation No. DJF-15-2100-PR-0022525 (No. 22525), for mail tracking systems. Pitney Bowes asserts that the agency failed to properly evaluate Neopost's quotations. We deny the protest.

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