Agency Reasonably Rejected Offer to Modify Equipment to Meet Brand Name Specification; GAO B-416691, Girton Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s award of a sole-source purchase order for a brand name product is denied, where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester’s alternative equipment failed to meet its needs and where the protester’s offer to modify the equipment to incorporate certain requirements would have created an untested configuration and presented risk.