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B-403366.2 1 (2010-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A GA O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Medfinity, LLC File: B-403366.2 Date: October 28, 2010 Peter Pham for the protester. Maj. James W. Nelson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Under brand name or equal solicitation, protester's proposal properly was rejected as unacceptable where agency reasonably determined that offered equal product failed to satisfy the stated salient characteristics. DECISION Medfinity, LCC, of Fountain Valley, California, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Dexis, LLC, of Des Plaines, Illinois, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W81XWH-10-T-0268, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, for dental filmless imaging systems (DFIS). Medfinity argues that the agency improperly rejected its lower-priced quotation. We deny the protest. The RFQ, issued June 9, 2010 on a brand name or equal basis, solicited quotations for 100 DFISs. The solicitation identified the Dexis DX101 system as the brand name product, listed salient characteristics that had to be satisfied by any product offered as equal to the brand name item, and required that vendors submit descriptive literature, such as illustrations or drawings, to demonstrate compliance with those characteristics. RFQ at 5; RFQ amend 2, at 2. Equal products were to be evaluated on the basis of information furnished by the vendor or identified in the quotation and reasonably available to the agency. RFQ at 5. The purchase order was to be issued to the vendor submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation.

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