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B-415539,B-415541 1 (2017-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadudg0001 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: Dura Brands, Inc. File: B-415539; B-415541 Date: December 28, 2017 Fayez Yousef, for the protester. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Joshua R. Gillerman, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests challenging agency's selection of a higher-priced, technically acceptable bids over the protester's bids are denied where the agency reasonably found that the protester's bids failed to include material information required by the solicitations, and therefore were technically unacceptable. DECISION Dura Brands, Inc., of Glendale, California, protests the award of contracts to U.S. Army Tactical Supply, of Kuwait City, Kuwait, and to Enrichment Bookstore & Arts Center, of Decatur, Georgia, under solicitation Nos. PR6708889 and PR6708930, both issued by the Department of State for copies of educational books. Dura challenges the agency's determination that its lowest-priced bids were technically unacceptable. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND Both procurements, posted to FedBid1 on September 11, 2017, were conducted as reverse auction buys. FedBid Listing, B-415539, at 9; FedBid Listing, B-415541, at 9. 1 FedBid, Inc., is a commercial online procurement services provider that operates a website at FedBid.com, which, among other things, hosts reverse auctions. FedBid refers to procurements conducted through its system as buys and a participant in the reverse auction is said to submit a bid.

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