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B-405067 1 (2011-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbwo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC REEASE 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: MediaNow, Inc. File: B-405067 Date: June 28, 2011 Jon W. van Horne, Esq., Law Office of Jon W. van Horne, for the protester. Megan L. Consedine, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Offer of equal products under brand name or equal solicitation was properly rejected where the technical information provided to the contracting agency failed to demonstrate that the equal products met all of the salient characteristics set forth in the solicitation. DECISION MediaNow, Inc., of Netcong, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), of St. Louis, Missouri, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N001 04-11-Q-Q441, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Inventory Control Point-Mechanicsburg, for digital signage solutions and hardware at Navy shipyards. MediaNow challenges the evaluation of quotations. We deny the protest. The RFQ contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for 2 years, for a guaranteed minimum of $400,000 and a maximum of $2 million over the life of the contract. The RFQ specified the use of Cisco Systems, Inc. or equal products, including digital media manager and video on demand appliances, outdoor billboards, LCD monitors, speakers, media players, and associated maintenance, technical support, installation and training. Award was to be made to the vendor with the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation. Three vendors including MediaNow and WWT submitted quotations. MediaNow initially submitted quotations offering two alternate equal product solutions. The evaluators found each solution had numerous deficiencies. In discussions, the

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