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B-406003 1 (2012-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadomg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A 0 Comptroller General , Accountability - Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Cryo Technologies File: B-406003 Date: January 18, 2012 Richard Hessinger for the protester. Lauren Didiuk, Esq., and Mark Langstein, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a procurement for a helium refrigerator for a research laboratory, protest challenging a requirement that the refrigerator use gas bearing turbine expanders is denied where agency establishes that the requirement is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Cryo Technologies, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. SB1341-11-RQ-0650, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a helium refrigerator for NIST's Center for Neutron Research in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Cryo contends that the requirement that the helium refrigerator use gas bearing turbine expanders is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In simple terms, a helium refrigerator operates by first compressing helium gas and then by expanding it to cool the helium gas. Turbine expanders are used to expand the compressed helium gas to reduce its temperature. See Protest at 4. The solicitation here, issued as a small business set-aside, sought quotations for a fully automatic 7,000 Watt helium refrigerator and required, among other things, that the refrigerator's expansion machine system use gas bearing turbine expanders of proven performance. RFQ at 8.

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