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G A 0Comptroller General
L MA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
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Decision
Matter of: M.Braun, Inc.
File: B-298935.2
Date: May 21, 2007
Thomas Dobbins for the protester.
Kenneth A. Redden, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency.
Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office
of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
An agency is not permitted to consider a late quotation, where the solicitation
contained a late submission provision that limited the agency's consideration of late
quotations, and no exception to the provision applied.
DECISION
M.Braun, Inc. protests the issuance of a purchase order to Premier Technology, Inc.
under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-DC-06-00339, issued by the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for a glovebox to be used by the EPA's
National Enforcement Investigations Center in Denver, Colorado.
We sustain the protest.
The RFQ, issued August 11, 2006 as a small business set-aside and a commercial item
acquisition, sought quotations for a glovebox, which is a container that allows for the
rapid identification of the exact chemical structure of hazardous substances in an
isolated engineering controlled environment. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS)
at 1. The RFQ requested fixed-price quotations and included the following
evaluation factors in descending order of importance: technical capability, past
performance and price. The RFQ incorporated by reference the standard
Instructions to Offerors--Commercial Items clause of the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR) § 52.212-1, and required the submission of quotations
electronically by 2 p.m., September 11, 2006. Vendors were informed that issuance
of the purchase order [would be] based upon 'best value' methodology. RFQ at 2;
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