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B-416798 1 (2018-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvcz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Geodata Systems Management, Inc. File: B-416798 Date: October 1, 2018 Mark H. Wilson, Esq., Whitcomb, Selinsky, McAuliffe PC, for the protester. Ernest E. Price, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley, for American Pacific Plastics Fabricators, Inc., an intervenor. Nicole M. Franchetti, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging terms of solicitation is dismissed where (1) the protest was untimely filed; and (2) the protest seeks to have solicitation interpreted in a manner that would result in more restrictive competition that would exclude other firms, and Government Accountability Office generally does not consider such allegations. DECISION Geodata Management Systems, Inc., of Middlesburg Heights, Ohio, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE8E6-18-T-2140, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for naval gunnery target balloons. Geodata maintains that the solicitation is for an item that only it is authorized to supply, and that the solicitation impermissibly permits firms to offer an alternate product manufactured by American Pacific Plastics Fabricators, Inc. (APPF). We dismiss the protest. The RFQ solicits quotations for two possible items, national stock number (NSN) part 6920016290823, which is the part number for a product manufactured by the protester, and NSN part 6920-17, which is the part number for a product manufactured by APPF. RFQ at 5.1 In effect, the protester maintains that the RFQ improperly allows other firms 1 The protester claims that its part number is a product that it refers to as the killer tomato. Geodata maintains that it holds an exclusive trademark for that name, along (continued...)

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