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B-266049 1 (1996-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadty0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: G. H. Harlow Company, Inc. File: B-266049 Date: January 26, 1996 Paul J. Holma, Esq., Bradach Law Offices, for the protester. Nicholas P. Retson, Esq., and Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that salient characteristic for a fire-detection system solicited on a brand name or equal basis is unduly restrictive of competition is denied where the contracting agency reasonably determined that the requirement is a necessary safety feature. DECISION G. H. Harlow Company, Inc. protests that certain specifications included in invitation for bids (IFB) No. DAHA30-95-B-0006, issued by the Departments of the Army and the Air Force, National Guard Bureau, for a fire-detection system, are unduly restrictive of competition. In particular, Harlow challenges the method specified for manually checking the integrity of the system's remote transceivers. We deny the protest. The IFB seeks bids for construction of a base-wide fire-detection system for the Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, New York, including a supplementary water supply connection and fire alarm detection systems in various buildings. The portion of the solicitation at issue here involves the installation of a radio-type fire reporting system. The IFB, as amended, requires the contractor to supply and install Monaco Enterprises, Inc.'s model D-700 or equal. The IFB describes the salient characteristics of the brand-name system and lists the installation and operational standards that must be met. The type of fire-detection system being procured consists of a central base station and numerous transceivers located throughout the installation. In the event of a fire, the transceivers transmit signals to the base station; based on those signals, the system operator in the central base station is able to identify the location of the fire. Systems of this type include a means of verifying that the remote transceivers 305126

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