United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1999-02-01 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:B-281359 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281359 P0b002ee18fd48f93 f:2813592 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-281359 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-281359 B-281359 Comptroller General Decision 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.<p/>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. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281359/html/GAOREPORTS-B-281359.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-281359/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-281359.pdf GAO/B-281359 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-281359 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-281359; West Coast Research Corporation, B-281359; B-281359.2,;