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B-191459 1 (1978-08-01)

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FILE: 0-191459                 C,.TE: August 1, 1978
MATTER   OF:  Smoke Detectors

DIGEST:

1.  Rejection of offerors on basis ot unstated
    specification rendered procurement defective.
    Corrective action is recommended.
2.  W.ere offerors in negotiated procurement wece
    required to submit test samples to establish
    compliance with specification, but agency re-
    jects offered equipment on basis of inconclu-
    sive statements in literature submitted with
    offers and does not perform test to evaluate
    units, proposal rejaction was improper.  Con-
    tracting officer should have conducted oral or
    written discussions dr obtained clarification
    prioi to any determination of technical unac-
    ceptability and establishment of a competitive
    range.

    Portsmouth Hardware and Building Supply, Inc.
(Portsmouth); Interstate Electric Supply Company, Inc.
(Interstate); Home Safeguard Industries, Inc. (Hone);
and Casady Engineering 4ssociates (Casady) have pro-
tested the rejection of their proposals under Request
for Proposals (RPP) No. 1030-821280, issued by the
Department of State (State), Supply and Transportation
Division, Arlington, Virginia.

    The RFP called for the furnishing of a quantity of
smoke detectors for installation in U.S. Department of
State's foreign posts throughout the world.  The four-
teen vendors proposing in response to the RFP offered
six different brands of smoke detactors.  In accordance
with the special provisions of the ReP, each offeror
furnished, for testing purposes, a working shelf model
of the smoke detector it proposed.
    State called upon the U.S. Department of Commerce,
National Bureau of Standards, Program for Pire Detec-
tion and Control Systems Center for Fire Research




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