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B-277095 1 (1997-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagay0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: TLC Systems File: B-277095 Date: September 2, 1997 Sidney Earley for the protester. Frank J. Tokarz for Monaco Enterprises, and Emerson B. Fisher for King-Fisher Company, intervenors. Vicki E. O'Keefe, Esq., and Jan M. Whitacre, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency may reasonably restrict competition for fire alarm reporting system to equipment of a particular manufacturer where this manufacturer is the only one that can provide Factory Mutual-approved equipment capable of interfacing with equipment already installed at the agency. 2. Where estimated value of procurement was beneath the simplified acquisition threshold of $100,000, agency's use of simplified acquisition procedures was appro priate. DECISION TLC Systems protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. N63387-97-Q- 5201, issued by the Navy Public Works Center, San Diego, California for installation of a radio fire alarm reporting system connecting nine San Diego area military base fire alarm systems with a central dispatch center. TLC contends that the RFQ, which requires King-Fisher radio transmitting and receiving equipment, is unnecessarily restrictive of competition since the equipment of other manufacturers would satisfy the agency's needs. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Navy's goal in conducting this procurement is to acquire a fire alarm reporting system capable of relaying alarm signals from nine military bases around the San Diego area to a single receiver located in a central dispatch office. The local alarm systems on eight of the nine bases are wired; the ninth, the Marine Corps Recruit

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