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B-278869 1 (1998-03-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: &vJTI? Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Micromass, Inc. File: B-278869 Date: March 24, 1998 Mike Colucci for the protester. Gena E. Cadieux, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that evaluation methodology in solicitation for commercial thermal ionization mass spectrometer and related equipment unduly restricts competition and favors a particular manufacturer is denied where the record supports the agency's view that the methodology is necessary for the agency to assess the compatibility of items offered with existing laboratory equipment, and the evaluation methodology in fact is aimed at enabling the agency to make such an assessment. DECISION Micromass, Inc. protests the terms of solicitation No. DE-RP02-98-CH10908, issued by the Department of Energy, for a thermal ionization mass spectrometer (TIMS) and related laboratory equipment to be used by the New Brunswick Laboratory (NBL).1 The protester contends that certain evaluation factors in the solicitation unduly restrict competition and favor the manufacturer of the agency's existing TIMS. We deny the protest. On December 3, 1997, the agency issued a combined synopsis/solicitation under subpart 13.6 (June 1997) of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) entitled, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items using simplified procedures set forth in FAR subpart 12.6 for the acquisition of supplies and services in amounts greater than the simplified acquisition threshold but not exceeding $5,000,000, including 1NBL is the national standards laboratory for nuclear materials and produces reference materials by certifying their isotopic and chemical compositions. The reference materials certified by NBL are used by commercial, academic, and other national laboratories for quality control, quality assurance, and traceability measurements. NBL's mission also includes work with other international reference material organizations to verify and jointly certify international reference standards.

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