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B-292911 1 (2003-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiwe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I & , G A 0 Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: 3K Office Furniture Distribution GmbH File: B-292911 Date: December 18, 2003 John Kester for the protester. Charles W. MacDonald, Esq., and Capt. AnTroy M. Murphy, Department of the Air Force, 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 for office furniture required vendors to submit wood samples to demonstrate compliance with solicitation requirements pertaining to wood quality, agency reasonably rejected protester's quotation, which did not include a wood sample, as unacceptable. DECISION 3K Office Furniture Distribution GmbH protests the rejection of its quotation and the issuance of a purchase order to ENT GmbH under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 61517-03-T-0201, issued by the Department of the Air Force for office furniture for a recently renovated building at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. We deny the protest. The RFQ, which was issued on April 13, 2003, sought modular office furniture, including desks and desk extensions, chairs, cupboards, shelf systems, mobile pedestals, couches, and coffee tables. The solicitation contained highly detailed descriptions of the items sought and provided for issuance of an order to the vendor whose quotation was most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The RFQ defined other factors as follows: Technically acceptable in accordance with the line item description: Must meet or exceed requested quality (to be evaluated based on descriptive literature and a sample of wood quality provided by