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B-415490 1 (2017-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Reagent World, Inc. File: B-415490 Date: October 23, 2017 Ron Tash for the protester. Major Bruce L. Mayeaux, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's selection of a higher-priced, technically acceptable bid over the protester's lower-priced bid is denied where the agency reasonably found that the protester's bid failed to include material information required by the solicitation, and therefore was technically unacceptable. DECISION Reagent World, Inc., a small business, of Irvine, California, protests the award of a contract to 3Sixty Mission Critical LLC, a small business, of Madison, Wisconsin, under solicitation No. RFQPR1 1055944, which was issued by the Department of the Army, for a datacenter APC capacitor replacement. Reagent World challenges the Army's determination that its lowest-priced bid was technically unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, which was posted to the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website on September 19, 2017, was for the acquisition of a commercial item under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 using simplified acquisition procedures under FAR Part 13. Solicitation at 1. Furthermore, the procurement was conducted as a reverse

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