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oComptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Matter of: Exploration Products
File: B-279251.2; B-279251.3
Date: June 1, 1998
Michael A. Hordell, Esq., and Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., Gadsby & Hannah, for the
protester.
Marian E. Sullivan, Esq., and P. Alan Luthy, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for
the agency.
John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq. Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Selection of higher-priced proposal for small shelter/environmental control units
was reasonable where testing of the protester's proposed equipment showed that
the equipment did not meet a number of mandatory specifications.
DECISION
Exploration Products protests the award of a contract to Alaska Industrial
Resources, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. F08626-97-R-0107, issued by
the Department of Air Force for a quantity of small shelter/environmental control
units (SS/ECU). Exploration argues that its SS/ECU was not properly evaluated and
that the Air Force should have communicated with the firm concerning certain
failures of its equipment during government testing.
We deny the protest because Exploration's SS/ECU was unacceptable and
Exploration could not be awarded the contract due to its failure to meet certain
mandatory specifications.
The RFP stated that the objective of the contract is to procure a commercially-
available, nondevelopmental shelter and ECU to replace the agency's current
shelters for housing and work areas and that the primary focus is to acquire a
system that is less of a burden to transport than the current SS/ECU. The RFP
included a System Performance Specification which described the performance
requirements and physical characteristics of the new SS/ECU. That document
stated, at section 1.1, that [t]he primary objective of the specification is to outline
the performance and physical characteristic requirements for a new system that](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptahsa0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)