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B-418303 1 (2020-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaqw0001 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: Altair Equipment Company, Inc. File: B-418303 Date: January 29, 2020 Donald R. Keer, for the protester. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Isabelle P. Cutting, Esq., Department of the Air Force, 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 that agency misevaluated protester's quotation as unacceptable is denied where the solicitation specified that the equipment be mobile and the protester's quotation expressly offered its existing stationary unit that it labeled an alternative solution. DECISION Altair Equipment Company, Inc., of Warminster, Pennsylvania, a small business, protests the award of a contract to The Maclean Group LLC, of Albany, California, also a small business, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4484-19-QA-01 8, issued by the Department of the Air Force for a commercial mobile water demineralization unit for a power plant steam generating system at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in New Jersey. Altair argues that the Air Force unreasonably rejected its quotation as technically unacceptable and improperly awarded the contract to Maclean at its higher price. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on August 29, 2019, was set aside for small businesses, and provided for a commercial item simplified acquisition. The RFQ sought quotations to provide a mobile demineralization unit and service (including labor, equipment, supplies, management, etc.) to operate and regenerate the unit for an 11-month base period and 4 option years. RFQ at 1; RFQ amend. 1 at 2. Altair has been the incumbent contractor under a contract awarded in 2014.

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