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B-400434 1 (2008-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadapr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General in7Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: CSI GmbH File: B-400434 Date: October 22, 2008 Alexander Stoebe and Patric E. Colp, for the protester. Maj. Daniel A. Woolverton, Department of the Army, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that vendor's products did not meet the solicitation requirements is denied where vendor's quotation provided evidence of compliance upon which the agency could reasonably rely. DECISION CSI GmbH protests the award of a contract to Mathy & Company Verpacksgungtechnik GmbH, under request for quotations (RFQ)' No. W912PE-08-T- 0141, issued by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Europe, for four types of plastic film for sealing meat. We deny the protest. The RFQ provided for the award of a contract to the vendor submitting the quotation determined to represent the best value to the government based upon the factors of product compliance, past performance, and price. RFQ at 11. The solicitation informed vendors that product compliance was a pass/fail factor that would be evaluated by determining whether the products proposed meet (or exceed) the minimum requirements listed in the solicitation. Id. Offerors were required to provide with their quotations 'We recognize that this protest involves an RFQ; however, the agency throughout its procurement record makes reference to the award of a contract. We have retained the language used by the agency in some instances for consistency with the underlying record.

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