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B-411428 1 (2015-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Encompass Group, LLC File: B-411428 Date: July 8, 2015 H. K. Tyler Jr., Encompass Group, LLC, for the protester. Bridget E. Grant, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq. and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that a solicitation for warm-up jackets failed to include the estimated number of each combination of style, color, and size of jackets in a procurement to establish multiple blanket purchase agreements for the jackets, is denied where the agency provided its best estimate of the total number of jackets required, and the agency did not have historical information or any other reasonable way to estimate the number of jackets it may need in each combination. 2. Protest that the agency failed to conduct adequate market research for conducting the procurement under the Federal Supply Schedule is denied where the agency reasonably concluded from its market research that quotations would be received from at least three contractors that can fulfill the requirements of the RFQ. DECISION Encompass LLC, of McDonough, Georgia, a small business, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA1 19-15-Q-0110, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for warm-up jackets. Encompass argues that the solicitation fails to include details concerning the estimated number of each type of jacket required. The protester also asserts that the agency failed to conduct adequate market research, and that there are not any vendors that can provide the warm-up jackets in accordance with the RFQ. We deny the protest.

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