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B-410899 1 (2015-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrab0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: American Material Handling, Inc. File: B-410899 Date: March 12, 2015 Wes McCleary for the protester. Matthew Myers, Esq., International Boundary and Water Commission, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably evaluated protester's quotation as technically unacceptable is denied, where the evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation, and the communications with the protester were clarifications, not discussions, which could not correct material deficiencies in its quotation. DECISION American Material Handling, Inc. (AMH), of Watkinsville, Georgia, protests the International Boundary and Water Commission's (IBWC) award of a contract to Federal Contracts Corporation, of Tampa, Florida, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 936886, for an excavator. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of its quotation as unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 27, 2014, the agency issued the solicitation, set aside for small businesses, using simplified acquisition procedures. Agency Email, Feb. 25, 2015; Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, RFQ; see Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 13.5. The RFQ sought quotations for the award of a contract for one excavator, brand name or equal to Caterpillar 320EL or John Deere 21 OGLC, to the vendor submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation. An attached specifications sheet contained salient characteristics and solicitation