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B-418157 1 (2020-01-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.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 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Kardex Remstar, LLC File: B-418157 Date: January 16, 2020 Julie M. Nichols, Esq., and James S. Phillips, Esq., Roeder, Cochran, Phillips, PLLC, for the protester. Timothy J. Ryan, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, 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 Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the protester's quotation is denied because the record shows that the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation's evaluation criteria. DECISION Kardex Remstar, LLC (Kardex), of Westbrook, Maine, protests the issuance of a fixed- price purchase order to Werres Corporation, of Frederick, Maryland, by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SP3300-19-Q-5026, for commercial vertical lift module (VLM) storage systems. Kardex alleges that the agency unreasonably evaluated its lower-priced quotation as technically unacceptable and impermissibly issued the purchase order to a higher-priced vendor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on June 10, 2019, and subsequently amended twice, solicited quotations for a contractor to deliver and install four VLM storage systems at DLA's distribution center located at Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. The solicitation was issued pursuant to the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6, and the simplified acquisition procedures of FAR subpart 13.5. RFQ at 1. The VLMs will be used to store small binnable parts for aircraft kitting operations. Statement of Work (SOW) at 3. The selected contractor will be required to deliver and install either its current, commercially designed and available

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