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B-281359 1 (1999-02-01)

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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision




Matter of: West Coast Research Corporation

File:       B-281359; B-281359.2

Date:       February 1, 1999

H. M. Spivack for the protester.
Howard E. Ward for Able Corporation, an intervenor.
Capt. Mark D. Pollard, Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Where solicitation required vendors to provide detail sufficient to show
compliance with listed salient characteristics of brand name model, determination
that protester's quotation, which did not address certain of those characteristics,
was technically unacceptable was reasonable and consistent with the solicitation.

2. In procurement conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation Subpart 12.6,
providing streamlined procedures for solicitation and evaluation of commercial
items, and Part 13, governing simplified acquisition procedures, where agency
determined that the only technically acceptable quotation was unreasonably priced,
protest against decision to solicit additional quote for the purpose of expanding
competition is denied.
DECISION

West Coast Research Corporation (WCRC) protests the issuance of a purchase
order to Able Corporation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. F05611-98-T-2008,
issued by the United States Air Force Academy, for the purchase of equipment to be
used in a scientific laboratory. The protester contends that the agency improperly
rejected its quotation.

We deny the protest.

On September 3, 1998, the agency issued the RFQ as a combined synopsis/
solicitation for commercial items--a sophisticated five-force one-moment balance,
calibration body, and master tape gauge, in accordance with a statement of
objectives (SOO), which appeared in a Commerce Business Daily (CBD) notice
announcing the solicitation. Air Force Memorandum of Law, Nov. 5, 1998 at 1; CBD
Notice dated Sept. 9, 1998 at exhibit 2 to WCRC protest. The agency advised
potential vendors that it had prepared the notice in accordance with Federal

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