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B-410587 1 (2015-01-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Webco Dental & Medical Supplies, Inc. File: B-410587 Date: January 8, 2015 John M. Manfredonia, Esq., and Jim Petersen, Esq., Manfredonia Law Offices, LLC, for the protester. Debra J. Talley, Esq., and Peter G. Tuttle, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester's contention that agency misevaluated the product offered by protester as unacceptable under a brand-name-or-equal specification is denied where the agency based its evaluation on the allegedly equal product's failure to meet specific salient characteristics that were stated in the solicitation, and the protester does not challenge the agency's evaluation findings. DECISION Webco Dental & Medical Supplies, Inc., of Hudson, Florida, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Executive Career Search Inc., of Oviedo, Florida, by the Department of the Army, under solicitation No. 20140617KODAK (also identified as FedBid Buy No. 623573) for dental imaging equipment and accessories for medical facilities in multiple states. Webco primarily argues that the Army misevaluated the firm's product as unacceptable and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Army issued the solicitation as a reverse auction on June 17, 2014, originally seeking bids to supply two Carestream CS 9300-C dental imaging equipment bundles, and six Carestream intraoral sensors, under a brand-name-or-equal

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