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B-405452 1 (2011-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadois0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENTFoR-PUBICRELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Beckman Coulter, Inc. File: B-405452 Date: November 4, 2011 Howard Stanislawski, Esq., Joel Singer, Esq., and Kyle J. Fiet, Esq., Sidley Austin LLP, for the protester. Christopher M. Johnson, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement conducted under Federal Supply Schedule procedures, an agency reasonably found that a vendor's descriptive literature established that the vendor's quoted centrifuge satisfied requirements in a request for quotations for compatibility with the agency's existing centrifuge rotors and containment system design. DECISION Beckman Coulter, Inc., of Brea, California, protests the issuance of a delivery order to Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., of Asheville, North Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 575218, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for a laboratory centrifuge. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on June 17, 2011, on the General Service Administration's (GSA) e-Buy website, sought quotations from Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors for the issuance of a delivery order for a programmable refrigerated ultracentrifuge for FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Division of Cellular

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