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B-417761 1 (2019-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaek0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. ....................................................................................................................... Matter of: Creative Custom Products File: B-417761 Date: October 18, 2019 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., and Lana Meller, Esq., Sklute & Associates, for the protester. Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Georgina C. Shepard, Esq., Samuel M. Shapiro, Esq., and Andrew C. Stevens, Esq., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, for FlexDecks, Inc., the intervenor. David S. Castro, Esq., and Karin S. Wiechmann, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the evaluation of protester's proposal as technically unacceptable is denied where the protester's equal product, submitted in response to a brand name or equal solicitation for aircraft maintenance stands, failed to meet specific salient characteristics listed in the solicitation. 2. Protest alleging that awardee's brand name product does not meet salient characteristics in a brand name or equal solicitation is dismissed as untimely. Any alleged inconsistency between a brand name product and the salient characteristics used to define an or equal product must be protested prior to the due date for receipt of proposals. DECISION Creative Custom Products (Creative), a small business located in Phoenix, Arizona, protests the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to FlexDecks, Inc., a small business located in Houston, Texas, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N68335-19-R-001 1, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Air Warfare Center, for V-22 Osprey aircraft maintenance wing stand platforms (maintenance stands). The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal as technically unacceptable for failing to meet salient characteristics established by the solicitation. Alternatively, the protester alleges that the awardee's proposal failed to meet the same salient characteristics, rendering the awardee's proposal unacceptable as well.

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