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B-283943 1 (2000-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptakyx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: 0. Ames Company File: B-283943 Date: January 27, 2000 D. C. Adams for the protester. W. S. Spotswood, Jr., for Fiskars Inc., Gerber Legendary Blades Division, an intervenor. Joshua A. Kranzberg, Esq., and Peter G. Tuttle, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-Mc Grail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency reasonably determined to conduct durability testing of entrenching tool in pick--as opposed to shovel--mode where pick mode represented overwhelming majority of field failures. 2. Agency reasonably determined that awardee's entrenching tool would be fully operational in all terrestrial extremes where awardee represented in its offer that the tool would withstand temperature extremes from -40° to +120° Centigrade, and where agency's own testing of tool's plastic components--which protester alleges will fail in extremely cold temperatures--revealed no failures. DECISION The 0. Ames Company protests the award of a contract to Fiskars Inc., Gerber Legendary Blades Division, under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAD16-99-R- 0100, issued by the Department of the Army for entrenching tools for use by the Marine Corps. The entrenching tool is a light-weight, collapsible tool that can be used in the field as a shovel, pick, hammer, and saw. The protester contends that Fiskars' entrenching tool is not equal to its own in durability, as required by the solicitation. We deny the protest.

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