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B-402673 1 (2010-06-17)

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  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: PB Ventures, Inc.

           File:       B-402673

           Date:       June 17, 2010

           Joshua Kaye for the protester.
           Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., Federal Bureau of Investigation, for the agency.
           Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest challenging rejection of protester's quotation as unacceptable is denied
           where the quotation, submitted in response to a solicitation for scent transfer units
           on a brand name or equal basis, was properly found not to meet the solicitation's
           salient characteristics.
           DECISION

           PB Ventures, Inc., (PBV) of North Hollywood, California, protests the award of a
           contract to Big T, LLC, of Haw River, North Carolina, by the Department of Justice,
           Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), under request for quotations (RFQ) No.
           LDQ003077, for scent transfer units.

           We deny the protest.

           The RFQ was issued on March 11, 2010, for the purchase of 60 scent transfer units
           for the FBI's Laboratory Division. Scent transfer units are used to collect human
           scent evidence at a crime scene. The FBI Laboratory Division's Human Scent
           Evidence Team utilizes a scent transfer unit known as the STU-100, manufactured by
           Big T, LLC, as the primary means to collect scent evidence at crime scenes. The RFQ
           was issued as a brand name or equal requirement for STU-100 units. As required
           by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 11.104(b), the RFQ set forth six technical
           features (or salient characteristics) that a product must have to qualify as an equal to
           the brand name product, as follows:

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