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B-402239 1 (2010-02-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A - GA O Comptroller General f~.n! 7 Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Ricoh America's Corporation File: B-402239 Date: February 22, 2010 Anthony Massey for the protester. Capt. Bridget E. Keenan, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a commercial-item acquisition conducted using two-step sealed bid procedures, a protest that awardee's multi-functional devices (MFD), commonly referred to as copiers, are technically unacceptable and were not on the firm's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract is denied, where the record confirms that the awardee's MFDs met all of the requirements of the solicitation and are, in fact, on the firm's GSA schedule contract. DECISION Ricoh America's Corporation of West Caldwell, New Jersey, protests the award of a contract to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., issued by the Department of the Army under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91 1S7-09-T-0053 for multi-functional devices (MFD), commonly referred to as copiers, for Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. We deny the protest. The solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for cost per copy MFDs for a base year, with four 1-year options. RFQ at 7. These MFDs were to include six different volume band copiers for both black and white, and color copies. Id. at 6. The acquisition was to be conducted using the commercial item acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 along with the two-step sealed bid procedures of FAR Part 14. Step one of the evaluation

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