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B-410502 1 (2015-01-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqvp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General m Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: INFICON, Inc File: B-410502 Date: January 5, 2015 James E. McBride, INFICON, Inc., for the protester. Bertrand Carret-Troncy, Aerowing, for the intervenor. John E. Pettit, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Brent Burrs, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee's proposed product was technically unacceptable for failing to meet required technical specifications is denied where protester's challenge is based on an unreasonable interpretation of the solicitation's specifications. DECISION INFICON, Inc. (INFICON), of East Syracuse, New York, protests the award of a contract to Aerowing, of Las Vegas, Nevada, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8517-14-R-31684 issued by the Department of the Air Force for hydrogen leak detectors. INFICON argues that the awardee's proposed product did not meet the requirements of the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, issued on April 9, 2014, anticipated the award of a fixed-price requirements contract with a one-year base period and four, one-year options. Contracting Officer Statement of Facts (CO Statement) at 1-2. The solicitation sought hydrogen leak detectors, to include first production testing, as well as

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