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B-414204.3 1 (2017-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtup0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: SSI Technology, Inc. File: B-414204.3 Date: September 12, 2017 Robert A. Bloom for the protester. Mandy W. Chiles, Esq., and John J. Pritchard, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester's challenge to the agency's use of best-value procedures is denied where, although the solicitation does not use the phrase best value in describing evaluation procedures, it sets forth evaluation criteria that effectively require a best-value analysis. 2. Agency's best-value tradeoff decision was reasonable where protester's past performance history was poor and the contracting officer concluded that it was worth paying a higher price and accepting a longer delivery time in order to ensure timely contract performance. DECISION SSI Technology, Inc. (SSI), a small business, of Sterling Heights, MI, protests the award of a purchase order to Phoenix Trading, Inc. (PTI), of Rockville, MD, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE7M5-16-U-0429, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency, Land and Maritime (DLA), for liquid fuel water separators. SSI asserts that the awardee cannot supply the product of an approved source, as required by the RFQ, and that the agency's best-value source selection was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, which was issued on August 12, 2016, sought quotations for the supply of 249 liquid fuel water separators identified by National Stock Number 4330-00-410-1212. RFQ at 4-5. The solicitation identified the following approved sources for the item:

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