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B-406075 1 (2012-02-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadonl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability - Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: FitNet Purchasing Alliance File: B-406075 Date: February 3, 2012 Raul Espinosa for the protester. MAJ James W. Nelson, Department of the Army; Michael D. Tulley, Esq., General Services Administration; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's decision not to set aside for small businesses an order under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program is dismissed where the protester does not hold an FSS contract, and therefore is not an interested party to pursue this matter. DECISION FitNet Purchasing Alliance, a small business located in Saint Augustine, Florida, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91 1 RZ-1 2-T-0001, issued by the Department of the Army for a reverse auction among vendors holding Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for fitness equipment. FitNet argues that this requirement should be set aside for small businesses. We dismiss the protest.' 1 During the course of the protest we received the views of the General Services Administration (GSA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and other industry concerns.

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