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B-416220,B-416220.2 1 (2018-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Pitney Bowes, Inc. File: B-416220; B-416220.2 Date: July 11, 2018 William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester. Rachel E. Woods, Esq., and Paul Harris, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that an awardee's technical approach violated regulations is denied where the record does not support the protester's characterization of the awardee's technical approach. 2. Protest that an agency erred in finding a quotation technically unacceptable is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that the protester's quotation did not meet the requirements of the solicitation. 3. Protest that agency failed to adequately document its technical evaluation in a lowest-priced, technically-acceptable procurement is denied where the agency reasonably documented the technical faults it identified in each quotation. DECISION Pitney Bowes, Inc., (PBI) of Stamford, Connecticut, protests the issuance of a delivery order to Stamps.com, of El Segundo, California, by the Department of the Army under request for quotations (RFQ) W15QKN-18-R-1016 for web-based postage. PBI argues that the agency erred in evaluating both its quotation and the awardee's quotation, and alleges that the agency's evaluation is inadequately documented. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On February 14, 2018, the agency issued the RFQ, which contemplated the issuance of a fixed-price delivery order under General Services Administration (GSA), Federal

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