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B-412185.2,B-412185.3,B-412186.2,B-412186.3 1 (2016-05-06)

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   SGAO
VL  ui  Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


Matter of:

File:

Date:


Comptroller General
of the United States


   DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
 The decision issued on the date below was subject to
 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
 been approved for public release.
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Pitney Bowes, Inc.

B-412185.2; B-412185.3; B-412186.2; B-412186.3

May 6, 2016


William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the
protester.
Andrew J. Mohr, Esq., Daniel Strouse, Esq., and Catherine K. Kroll, Esq., Cohen
Mohr LLP, for Neopost USA, Inc., the intervenor.
Jerry S. Hiett, Esq., and Robert D. English, Esq., Federal Bureau of Investigation,
for the agency.
Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest contentions that the agency did not reasonably evaluate the awardee's
quotations of equal products under brand name or equal solicitations is denied
where the solicitations lacked salient characteristics and the products accepted as
equal were not shown to be significantly different from the brand name products.
DECISION

Pitney Bowes, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, protests the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's (FBI) award of two contracts to Neopost USA, Inc., of Milford,
Connecticut, under solicitation No. DJF-15-2100-PR-0020579 (No. 20579) and
solicitation No. DJF-15-2100-PR-0022525 (No. 22525), for mail tracking systems.
Pitney Bowes asserts that the agency failed to properly evaluate Neopost's
quotations.


We deny the protest.

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