American Recycling Systems, Inc. (ARS) protests the Department of the Navy's determination that the quotation it submitted for a trailer-mounted brass ordnance shell deformer, in response to request for quotations (RFQ) No. N6921803-RC-00264, was technically unacceptable. ARS argues that it should have received the award because it submitted the lowest-priced quotation, it had previously supplied...

DIGEST Protest that contracting agency improperly found protester's quotation to be technically unacceptable is denied where the agency possessed significant countervailing evidence that created doubt whether the vendor could comply with a material requirement of the solicitation and the vendor failed to take the opportunity to provide support for its claimed ability to comply with the requirement...