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B-419518,B-419518.2,B-419518.3 Apr 15, 2021 1 (2021-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaollr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Shuttlewagon Inc. File: B-419518; B-419518.2; B-419518.3 Date: April 15, 2021 Susan W. Ebner, Esq., Eric Whytsell, Esq., and Judith Araujo, Esq., Stinson LLP, for the protester. Matthew T. Schoonover, Esq., and Ian P. Patterson, Esq., Schoonover & Moriarty LLC, for Innovative Quality Solutions, LLC, the intervenor. Felecia R. McBride, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that awardee's railway car spotter failed to meet certain minimum technical requirements and should have been found technically unacceptable is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably determined that the car spotter met the requirements. 2. Protest that the agency applied an arbitrary standard in concluding that the modifications required for the car spotter were minor is denied where record shows that the agency's analysis was consistent with guidance in the Federal Acquisition Regulation and reasonable. DECISION Shuttlewagon, Inc., of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, protests the award of a contract to Innovative Quality Solutions (IQS), LLC, of Grandview, Missouri, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 6913G21 Q300005, issued by the Department of Transportation for two railway car spotters. Shuttlewagon argues that IQS's railway car spotter failed to meet certain minimum technical requirements and should have been found technically unacceptable, and that the agency's evaluation applied an arbitrary and unreasonable standard in evaluating the awardee's quotation. We deny the protest.

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