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B-281877 1 (1999-04-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajif0001 and id is 1 raw text is: &vJTI? Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: SOG Specialty Knives, Inc. File: B-281877 Date: April 12, 1999 Spencer Frazer for the protester. W. S. Spotswood, Jr., for Fiskars Inc., an intervenor. Adele Ross Vine, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where an invitation for bids required adequate descriptive literature to determine whether the offered items conform to the technical requirements and bidders were advised that failure to do so would result in rejection of their bids, protester's bid offering equivalent items was properly rejected as nonresponsive where the descriptive information furnished with the bid did not show that the offered items were equal to the brand name items solicited. DECISION SOG Specialty Knives, Inc. (SOG) protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 6FES-G3-980158-S, issued by the General Services Administration on a brand name or equal basis, for multi-purpose pocket survival knives (tools). GSA rejected SOG's bid because the descriptive literature it submitted did not establish that SOG 's offered tools were equal to the brand name. We deny the protest. The IFB contemplated award on an item by item basis for eight different tools, only three of which are at issue here--item numbers 3, 4, and 5, described as Fiskars/Gerber part numbers 07500G, 07505G, and 07520G, or equal. IFB, Item Purchase Description (IPD) at 2-7. As relevant here, the IFB required that for item numbers 3 and 4, the tool must have a non-glare satin finish and a plier head that shall retract and slide into the handle. Item number 5 required the same salient characteristics as item number 3 except that the tool was required to have a black oxide finish. IFB, IPD at 3-4. Bidders offering other than brand name items were required to submit with their bids adequate descriptive literature for the agency to determine the equality of their offered items and the items had to meet each of the listed characteristics set forth in the IPD. Bidders were also advised that failure to submit the required descriptive literature would result in the rejection of the bid as nonresponsive. IFB § B.1, at 7.

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