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B-309784 1 (2007-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauir0001 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 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: CAMSS Shelters File: B-309784; B-309784.2 Date: October 19, 2007 William A. Shook, Esq., George M. Koehl, Esq., Victor G. Vogel, Esq., and Kelley P. Doran, Esq., Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, for the protester. Richard J. Conway, Esq., Robert J. Moss, Esq., and Justin A. Chiarodo, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for Alaska Structures, Inc., an intervenor. Capt. Christy J. Kisner, and Lt. Col. John M. Dowling, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the rejection of a quotation as unacceptable is denied where the quotation submitted in response to a solicitation for shelters on brand-name-or- equal basis was properly found not to meet the solicitation's salient characteristics. 2. Protest alleging that the awardee's brand name product does not meet the salient characteristics in the solicitation is dismissed as untimely; any alleged inconsistency between a brand name item and the salient characteristics used to define an or equal product must be protested prior to the closing time for receipt of offers, or in this case, quotations. DECISION California Industrial Facilities Resources, Inc., doing business as CAMSS Shelters (CAMSS), a small business, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Alaska Structures, Inc. (ASI) by the Department of the Air Force under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4452-07-Q-A055 for nine 18 foot by 26 foot shelters. CAMSS objects that its lower-priced quotation was unreasonably rejected as unacceptable, while the requirements were waived for ASI. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND

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