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          G     A   O                                                  Comptroller General
V    f  Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                        of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: Scaletta Armoring

           File:       B-412302

           Date:       January 14, 2016

           Daniel Trainor, for the protester.
           James E. Hicks, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency.
           Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           Protest challenging agency's evaluation and tradeoff decision is denied where the
           agency reasonably concluded that awardee's quotation offered several advantages
           that warranted the payment of the associated price premium.
           DECISION

           Scaletta Armoring, of Bedford Park, Illinois, protests the award of a contract to The
           O'Gara Group, of Fairfield, Ohio, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. D-1 5-SA-
           0058, issued by the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), for
           three BMW X5 Series sport utility vehicles with Level C armoring. Scaletta
           challenges the evaluation of quotations and resulting source selection.

           We deny the protest.

           BACKGROUND

           The Department of State maintains a list of the vendors authorized to armor
           vehicles to the Level C standards'. The list consists of four vendors, including
           Scaletta and O'Gara. Contracting Officer Statement (COS) at 2. The RFQ, issued
           on May 13, 2015 to the four vendors on the list, sought quotations for BMW X5
           Series sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with Department of State (DOS) Level C

           1 Department of State's specifications for Level C armoring are classified. COS
           at2, n.l.

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