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B-280980 1 (1998-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahxm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Advanced Seal Technology, Inc. File: B-280980 Date: December 14, 1998 James P. Rome, Esq., for the protester. Walter R. Pierce, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. C. Douglas McArthur, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to consider quotation allegedly sent by facsimile is denied where the record does not show that the agency received the quotation. DECISION Advanced Seal Technology, Inc. (AST) protests the issuance of a purchase order to Quality Control Corporation (QCC) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SP0760-98-Q-1478, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency for seal assemblies. AST contends that it submitted the low-priced quotation in response to the solicitation. We deny the protest. On July 7, 1998, the agency issued the RFQ for spring-loaded shaft seal assemblies, with a list of three approved sources and their corresponding part numbers. A synopsis prepared for the Commerce Business Daily (CBD) identified the buyer, with her telephone and facsimile numbers. The RFQ itself listed a different facsimile number in the address box for the contracting activity, the Defense Supply Center, Columbus (DSCC). On September 2, the protester contacted the agency regarding the status of the procurement and was told that DSCC intended to issue a purchase order to QCC at a price of $950 per unit. The protester asked the agency what had happened to its quotation, which, it asserted, was lower in price. After a review of the file, the