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B-298573 1 (2006-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasrc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Joint Systems, Inc. File: B-298573 Date: October 6, 2006 Robert G. Goetzman for the protester. Vera Meza, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where request for quotations (RFQ) for thumbdrives required vendors to submit an image of a thumbdrive with a write-protect switch to demonstrate compliance with RFQ requirements pertaining to the switch, agency reasonably rejected protester's quotation, which did not include an image of the switch, as unacceptable. DECISION Joint Systems, Inc. protests the issuance of a purchase order for 2,550 thumbdrives to Global Channel Solutions, Inc. under request for quotations No. 9K60425, issued by the Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems, Technology Applications Office of the Department of the Army. Joint Systems complains that its quotation was for a technically acceptable product and was lower in price than Global's. We deny the protest. The RFQ, which was furnished to prospective vendors via e-mail on July 5, 2006, consisted of two pages: a schedule that included a paragraph of special instructions identifying significant features of the thumbdrives and a page of specifications that furnished additional details regarding the required characteristics of the drives. An e-mail message accompanying the two attachments notified vendors that the government intended to award without discussions a Firm Fixed- Price (FFP) purchase order to the responsive offeror whose quote conforms to the requirement and who is offering the lowest price. The e-mail message further notified vendors that quotations were to be submitted via e-mail by I p.m. on July 10, 2006.

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