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B-420013,B-420013.2 Oct 29, 2021 1 (2021-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaomjc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Axxeum, Inc. File: B-420013; B-420013.2 Date: October 29, 2021 Jerome S. Gabig, Esq., Richard J.R. Raleigh, Esq., and Christopher L. Lockwood, Esq., Wilmer & Lee, PA, for the protester. Christian N. Curran, Esq., and Adelicia R. Cliffe, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Mereo 4 Holdings, LLC, the intervenor. Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Sarah T. Zaffina, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected protester's quotation as technically unacceptable where the quotation did not clearly show that the vendor's proposed parts met the solicitation's requirements. DECISION Axxeum, Inc., a small business of Huntsville, Alabama, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Mereo 4 Holdings, LLC (Mereo), a small business of Chicago, Illinois, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W58RGZ-21-Q-0002, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal (Army), for Bell Huey II spare parts in support of Lebanon. Axxeum alleges that the agency unreasonably evaluated its lower-priced quotation as technically unacceptable and impermissibly issued the order to a higher-priced vendor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On April 22, 2021, the Army issued the RFQ as a combined synopsis/solicitation under commercial item acquisition and simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subparts 12.6 and 13.5. The solicitation contemplated the issuance

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