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B-294934 1 (2004-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptappu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: American Floor Consultants & Installations, Inc. File: B-294934; B-294934.2 Date: December 16, 2004 Clayton W. King for the protester. Eric Kattner, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where, in response to agency request that protester clarify whether its quotation was based on the brand name or an equal product, protester provided evidence that it was a certified installer of a product other than the brand name, agency reasonably concluded that protester's quotation was based on providing an equal product, and therefore properly rejected the quotation for failure to include required descriptive literature for that product. DECISION American Floor Consultants & Installations, Inc. protests the rejection of its quotation in response to request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4887-04-T-0036, issued by the Department of the Air Force for installation of an epoxy floor system in hangar 840 at Luke Air Force Base. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued under simplified acquisition procedures, specified installation of Garland Floor Company products, or equal. Vendors quoting an equal product were required to submit descriptive literature to establish that the product was equivalent to the specified brand-name product. RFQ at 4. A purchase order was to be issued to the vendor that quoted the lowest price and met or exceeded the RFQ requirements. American Floor submitted its quotation by the September 27, 2004 deadline, but the quotation did not specify whether it was based on the brand name or an equal product. On September 29, the Air Force sent an e-mail requesting that American

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