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B-417657 1 (2019-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzt0001 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 ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release.----------------------------- Matter of: BZ Defense, LLC File: B-417657 Date: September 12, 2019 Sarah Reida, Esq., Legal Meets Practical, LLC, for the protester. Scott Gengras, Esq., and Erin Hufstetler, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency erred in finding quotations for armored vehicles to be technically unacceptable is denied where the solicitations required vendors to maintain original equipment manufacturer warranties, and the protester's quotations did not address this requirement. DECISION BZ Defense, LLC, of Los Angeles, California, protests its exclusion from competition under requests for quotations (RFQs) No. 1353572 and 1353578, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for Armored Chevrolet Tahoes and Armored Ford F350s, respectively. The protester alleges that the agency erred in finding its quotations to be technically unacceptable on several bases.1 We deny the protests BACKGROUND On March 7, 2019, the agency issued the RFQs, seeking 10 armored Chevrolet Tahoes and 8 armored Ford F350s for use by the United States Air Force in various overseas 1 The protester's quotations and the agency's evaluations of them are substantially similar in both protested procurements in most respects. Therefore, this decision will address them collectively, except where otherwise noted.

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