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B-409792 1 (2014-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Capture, LLC File: B-409792 Date: June 16, 2014 James J. Mokhiber, for the protester. Steven Cullen, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the rejection of a quotation as unacceptable is denied where the quotation for an or equal product, submitted in response to a brand-name-or- equal solicitation for shredders, was properly found not to meet the solicitation's salient characteristics. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee's brand name product does not meet the salient characteristics in a brand-name-or-equal solicitation for shredders is dismissed as untimely; any alleged inconsistency between a brand name item and the salient characteristics used to define an or equal product must be protested prior to the closing time for receipt of quotations. DECISION Capture, LLC, of Tampa, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Resource Packaging, Inc., of Laguna Niguel, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 862647, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, for high security, combination paper and media shredders. Capture challenges the agency's determination that its quoted shredder failed to meet the salient characteristics of the RFQ and argues that, in any case, the awardee's shredder failed to meet certain salient characteristics. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued via the General Services Administration's (GSA) eBuy system to vendors holding GSA Federal Supply Schedule 75 contracts, sought quotations for three high security, combination paper and media shredders. The solicitation

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