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B-412303.2 1 (2016-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrvd0001 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: Export 220Volt, Inc. File: B-412303.2 Date: January 20, 2016 Paula Thakker, for the protester. Suresh Saraswat, for Asian European Electronics & Appliances, an intervenor. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of awardee's technical proposal is sustained where the awardee failed to comply with the solicitation's stated evaluation criterion that required offerors to provide product literature to substantiate the acceptability of their proposed products. DECISION Export 220Volt, Inc., of Houston, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Asian European Electronics & Appliances (AEEA), of Northridge, California, under request for proposals (RFP) No. SGE500-15-R-0145, issued by the Department of State, Regional Procurement Support Office (Germany), for portable, step-down transformers. Export 220Volt argues that the agency's evaluation of AEEA's proposal and the resulting award decision were improper. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation,' issued on September 21, 2015, as a commercial item acquisition, contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for portable, step-down 1 The record demonstrates that the solicitation is not a model of clarity. For example, the solicitation states that it is issued as an RFP (RFP at 1), while the corresponding FedBizOpps notice states that the procurement is being conducted (continued...)

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