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B-296195 1 (2005-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczcm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General L LA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: U.S. Reconstruction and Development Corporation File: B-296195 Date: June 7, 2005 Kyle Sampson for the protester. Capt. Sunny S. Ahn, Department of the Army, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency properly rejected protester's offer as technically unacceptable where the solicitation called for diesel generators to be delivered to Iraq and the protester offered unleaded gasoline generators to be delivered to Kuwait. DECISION U.S. Reconstruction and Development Corporation (USRDC) protests the rejection of its offer under solicitation No. W912D1-05-T-0076, issued by the U.S. Army Contracting Command Kuwait to supply diesel-powered generators to be delivered to Camp Bucca, Iraq. We deny the protest. On January 22, 2005, the U.S. Army Contracting Command Kuwait issued a solicitation requesting offers to supply 30 diesel-powered generators to be delivered to Camp Bucca, Iraq. The solicitation stated that award would be made to the firm submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer. The Army received nine timely offers. USRDC submitted the lowest total price. However, USRDC proposed an unleaded gasoline generator that it would deliver to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The contracting officer noted the deficiencies in generator type and delivery location in USRDC's offer and rejected it as unacceptable. On March 20, the contracting officer awarded the contract to Smart Traders, the firm with the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer, and this protest followed. USRDC alleges that its offer mistakenly indicated that it would supply a gasoline generator, as opposed to the diesel generator the solicitation required, and that the

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