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B-412261 1 (2016-01-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsra0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: NABCO Systems, LLC File: B-412261 Date: January 12, 2016 Jeffrey E. Weinstein, Esq., The Weinstein Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. Department of State, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against order placed under request for quotations, issued on a brand name or equal basis, is sustained where the awardee did not establish compliance of its equal product with all the salient characteristics of the agency's requirement. DECISION NABCO, Inc., of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, protests the Department of State's issuance of a task order to Mistral Security, of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1031783, for a multi-use explosive containment device. NABCO complains that the agency unreasonably determined that Mistral's quotation was technically acceptable. We sustain the protest. The agency issued the RFQ via the General Service Administration's e-Buy system pursuant to the procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, for the procurement of a total containment vessel for the transportation of improvised explosive devises and unexploded ordnance. RFQ at 1. The RFQ was issued on a brand name or equal basis, specifying the NABCO model 42-SCS container as the brand name and listing the salient characteristics with which an equal product would need to comply. Among the listed salient characteristics were four requirements for explosive ratings: 12.8 lbs. (5.8 kg) TNT repeated use; 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) military C-4 repeated use; 25.7 lbs. (11.7 kg) TNT one-time use; and 20 lbs. (9.1 kg) military C-4 one-time use. Id. The RFQ provided that vendors quoting equal products shall submit descriptive literature to

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