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B-414742 1 (2017-09-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtuh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Sea Box, Inc. File: B-414742 Date: September 6, 2017 Robert A. Farber, Esq., for the protester. Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for Tribalco, LLC, the intervenor. Jennifer Howard, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the elimination of a proposal that did not demonstrate conformance with the salient characteristics in a brand-name-or-equal procurement was tantamount to a finding of nonresponsibility is denied where the agency reasonably found the proposal unacceptable based on a factor not related to responsibility. DECISION Sea Box, Inc., a small business of East Riverton, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to Tribalco, LLC, of Bethesda, Maryland, under request for proposals (RFP) No. GSQ0017AJO016, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for relocatable simulator shelters (RSS) for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Simulators Program Office and Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to house training devices. The protester argues that the agency was required to refer Sea Box's unacceptable proposal to the Small Business Administration (SBA) because the basis for eliminating Sea Box from the competition related to responsibility. The protester also asserts that the agency failed to provide proper notice of Sea Box's elimination from the competition, and failed to provide a pre-award notice regarding the award to Tribalco. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND AFSOC is responsible for training Air Force Tactical Air Control Parties (TACP), which are teams of airmen with the ability to call and direct close air support and other

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