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B-409924.2 1 (2015-01-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwj0001 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: Guildline Instruments Inc. File: B-409924.2 Date: January 13, 2015 Richard Timmons for the protester. Michael R. Frisz, for Measurements International Inc., the intervenor. Maj. Carlos M. De Dios, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly found awardee's product to be technically acceptable because the agency failed to test the product is denied where solicitation indicated that comprehensive testing would be performed on production units delivered under the contract rather than on the product samples, and where the agency's evaluation of the product sample, and the conclusion that the product is acceptable, has not been shown to be unreasonable. DECISION Guildline Instruments Inc., of Ontario, Canada, protests the Department of the Air Force's award of a contract to Measurements International Inc. (MI), of Ontario, Canada, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA2263-14-Q-0002, for the supply of teraohmmeters. Guildline asserts that the agency failed to conduct tests of the product sample units in accordance with the terms of the RFQ. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND A teraohmmeter is a device for precisely measuring electrical high resistance values. The solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract, with a base year and three option years, for up to 75 teraohmmeters, to be purchased in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items, using simplified acquisition procedures. RFQ at 1-2. Award was to be made to the offeror submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable

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