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B-186476 1 (1976-11-09)

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                                 THE  COMPTkOLLEPI3ENEP4AL
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                        r.       WASHINGTON,           . S,20548



    FILE:                               DA\TE:   November 9, 1976
          B-186476
    MATTER OF:
                    Ocean Applied Research Corporation

    DIGEST:





1.  Protester's blanket statemnt  that its product met 40.
    salient characteristics listed in IFB did not satisfy bid-
    der's requirement in.IFB's brand name or equal clause to sub-
    mit descriptive material necessary for purchasing activity to
    determine whether product met such characteristics and to
    'stablirsh what bidder proposed to furnish.




2.  Protester, who did not see data on its product accumulated by
    agency but relied on such data to establish that similar
    product met salient characteristics of IFB, took risk that
    data would ,be complete and accurate. Where such data failed
    to establish that product met Ywo salient characteristics,
    protester's bid was properly rejected as nonresponsive.


    Ocean  Applied Research Corporation (OAR) protests the award of
a contract for 100 marine homing systems and assocated technical
manuals and documentation under invitation fc _ida (IFB) No.
CC-62,919-A, issued on February 27,  - '6, by the United States Coast
Cuurd.

     The IFB specified that each m;    VIP-FM homing system  ias to
be composed of Emergency Beacon Corporation models EBC-RT-55M VHF-FM
transceiver and EBC-DF-55M director finder (modified to have a variable
indicator meter damping control) or equal, having the salient characteris-
tics stipulated in the brand name or equal purchase description. The




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