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B-412061 1 (2015-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrsb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: f\ G A Comptroller General ~ty * Integrity * Rel lability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE 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: Oransi, LLC File: B-412061 Date: December 2, 2015 Stephen A. Aguilar, Esq., and Richard Ressler, Esq., Moster, Wynne & Ressler, P.C., for the protester. Morgan L. Cosby, Esq., and Tudo N. Pham, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably evaluated the awardee's lowest-priced quotation as technically acceptable, and where the award was thus reasonable and consistent with criteria in the solicitation. DECISION Oransi, LLC, of Austin, Texas, protests the award of a contract to Export 220Volt Inc., of Houston Texas, under an unnumbered request for quotations (RFQ) issued by the Department of State (DOS) for 450 air purifiers and 350 replacement filters for the United States Embassy in Beijing, China.1 Oransi argues that the awardee's air purifier does not meet the solicitation requirements, that the awardee will not deliver the items in its quotation, and that the awardee's pricing is improper. We dismiss the protest in part, and deny it in part. 1 An earlier solicitation for the same requirement was issued by the Beijing embassy's general services officer as RFQ No. SGE500-15-Q-0025. Upon recognizing that the winning quotation had exceeded his purchasing authority, the general services officer canceled that solicitation and transferred the requirement to a contracting officer at the regional procurement support office in Frankfurt, Germany, who issued the RFQ at issue in this protest in the form of an e-mail. Agency Report (AR) at 2 n.2.

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