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B-406524 1 (2012-06-15)

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   AL     G    A    O0                                                  Comptroller General
211=Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                            of the United States
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548



           Decision


           Matter of: Technical Associates, Inc.

           File:       B-406524

           Date:       June 15, 2012

           Joseph H. Proctor for the protester.
           Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency.
           Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. Protest that an agency improperly restricted a procurement to Federal Supply
           Schedule (FSS) vendors is denied where agency reasonably determined that the
           solicited items could be procured through the FSS.

           2. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the terms of a solicitation issued
           under the FSS program where the protester does not hold an FSS contract.
           DECISION

           Technical Associates, Inc., (TAI) of West Chester, Pennsylvania, protests the terms
           of invitation for bids (IFB) No. W25G1 Q201700BE, issued by the Department of the
           Army for a reverse auction among vendors holding Federal Supply Schedule (FSS)
           contracts for no-tangle body harnesses, carabiners, and self-retracting lifelines.

           We deny in part and dismiss in part the protest.

           On March 7, 2012, the Army posted the IFB on the FedBid website for a reverse
           auction.' IFB at 1-2; Contracting Officer's Statement at 1. The solicitation restricted
           the competition to vendors holding FSS contracts and identified the response date
           as March 20. IFB at 1. The agency received 10 bids. TAI did not submit a bid.



           1 FedBid, Inc. is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a
           website at FedBid.com, which among other things, conducts reverse auctions.

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