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B-274131 1 (1996-11-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaekt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Kasco Fuel Maintenance Corp. File: B-274131 Date: November 22, 1996 F. J. Crovato for the protester. Mort Ende, for Environmental Products Sales Corporation, an intervenor. Lenore K. Strakowsky, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Jeanne W. Isrin, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee's proposal failed to establish compliance with specifications is denied where agency reasonably found compliance based on descriptive literature in proposal and knowledge and literature evaluators already possessed concerning awardee's equipment; although proposal failed to include information regarding performance of logistics support requirements, waiver of this deficiency was unobjectionable since it did not prejudice protester. DECISION Kasco Fuel Maintenance Corp. (KFMC) protests the award of a contract to Environmental Products Sales Corporation (ENPRO) under request for proposals (RFP) No. N68335-96-R-0109, issued by the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, for antifreeze recycling units. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplated award of a fixed-price contract for machines to recycle commercial antifreeze from various commercial vehicles and light duty ground support equipment. Proposals were required to include descriptive literature which established compliance with performance specifications in the RFP. The evaluation was to be on a pass/fail basis, with award to be made to the lowest-cost, technically acceptable offeror. Three proposals were submitted, including KFMC's and ENPRO's (the third was rejected as unacceptable). Award was made to ENPRO based on its substantially lower price. KFMC argues that ENPRO's proposal failed to establish that its unit meets certain specifications and failed to comply with other requirements and therefore should 5341122

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