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B-410797 1 (2015-02-12)

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          SG    A    O                                                   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-410797

           Date:       February 12, 2015

           Raul Espinosa, FitNet Purchasing Alliance, for the protester.
           Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Capt. Adam N. Olsen, Department of the Air Force, for
           the agency.
           Brent Burris, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
           GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
           DIGEST

           1. Protest arguing that solicitation should have been set aside for small businesses
           is dismissed as untimely because the face of the solicitation clearly established that
           the procurement was being conducted using full and open competition and protester
           did not file its protest until after the closing time for receipt of quotes.

           2. Protest that agency improperly rejected the protester's quote is denied where the
           protester failed to provide information required by solicitation clause implementing
           relevant provisions of the Buy American statute.
           DECISION

           FitNet Purchasing Alliance (FitNet), of Saint Augustine, Florida, a small business,
           protests the award of a contract to Life Fitness, Inc. (Life Fitness), of Rosemont,
           Illinois, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA6633-14-Q-0009, issued by the
           Department of the Air Force for fitness equipment, to include delivery and
           installation.

           We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part.

           BACKGROUND

           The RFQ, issued on July 28, 2014, sought seventeen pieces of resistance training
           equipment on a brand-name-or-equal basis, with award to be made to the vendor
           submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable quote. RFQ at 1, 6. The RFQ

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