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B-299862 1 (2007-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaugw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Charleston Marine Containers, Inc. File: B-299862 Date: August 30, 2007 Mike Szathmary, Charleston Marine Containers, Inc., for the protester. Bob Loughery, for Sea Box, Inc., an intervenor. Marlene Surrena, Esq., and Sharif T. Dawson, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's determination to approve successful vendor's product is denied where record shows that the agency's determination was reasonably based. DECISION Charleston Marine Containers, Inc. (CMCI) protests the issuance of a delivery order to Sea Box, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPM8ED-07-Q-0336, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, for Tricon II cargo containers. The protester principally maintains that the Sea Box container was improperly approved by the agency. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued May 7, 2007, sought quotes from two qualified sources to supply 9 Tricon II containers to be delivered within 10 days of award.' Quotations were to be submitted by May 9. The RFQ listed products of Sea Box and CMCI with their respective part numbers as approved, and also permitted evaluation of alternate 'A Tricon II container is a cube-shaped container that has a set of doors on both ends. The agency reports that Tricon is a common generic term used in the container industry to refer to a specific type of cargo container. Agency Report (AR) at2.

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