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United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
approved for public release.
Decision
Matter of: Hubbell Electric Heater Company
File: B-289098
Date: December 27, 2001
Robert Allen Evers, Esq. , and George M. Coburn, Esq., Robert Allen Evers Law
Office, for the protester.
James J. Regan, Esq., Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and Amy E. Laderberg, Esq., Crowell &
Moring, for SFA, Inc., Frederick Manufacturing Division, an intervenor.
Joshua Kranzberg, Esq., and Peter G. Tuttle, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for
the agency.
Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Selection of other than the lowest-priced proposal was reasonable where source
selection authority determined that the offeror's failure to adequately address how it
would establish compliance with quality assurance standards at the time of
production represented a risk that outweighed the one percent price advantage of its
proposal.
DECISION
Hubbell Electric Heater Company protests the award of a contract to SFA, Inc.,
Frederick Manufacturing Division under request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAD16-
01-R-0016, issued by the United States Army Natick Soldier Center for the
development and production of the Advanced Food Sanitation Center (AFSC),
which essentially is a field dishwashing system. The protester contends that the
source selection decision lacked a reasonable basis.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued June 1, 2001, provided for award of a fixed-price requirements
contract for a 2-year base with three 2-year options. The RFP specified that [t]he](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptamtc0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)