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B-412147 1 (2015-12-22)

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          G    A    O                                                 Comptroller General
VA   N Accountability * Integrity * Reliability            of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: Axxon International, LLC

          File:       B-412147

          Date:       December 22, 2015

          Art Ward, for the protester.
          Lauren Didiuk, Esq., and Erin Masini, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the
          agency.
          Laura Eyester, Esq., Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the
          General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest that agency misevaluated technical proposal is denied where record shows
          that protester's product was reasonably determined to be technically unacceptable
          for failing to meet specifications.
          DECISION

          Axxon International, LLC (Axxon), of Rock Hill, South Carolina, a small business,
          protests the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
          Administration's (NOAA) award of a purchase order to Freeman Marine Equipment,
          of Gold Beach, Oregon, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. NMAN7200-15-
          01 787CE, for weather-tight marine doors for the NOAA Research Vessel Hi'ialakai.
          Axxon challenges the agency's rejection of its quotation as unacceptable.

          We deny the protest.

          BACKGROUND

          On August 7, 2015, NOAA issued a combined synopsis/solicitation, set aside for
          small businesses, for the award of 12 weather-tight exterior marine doors for NOAA
          Research Vessel Hi'ialakai, a ship operating out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that
          conducts dive intensive missions. RFQ at 9; Agency Report (AR) at 1.1 The RFQ

          1 NOAA used a Bates numbering system in preparing the agency report. This
          decision uses the Bates numbers assigned by the agency for its citations.

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