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B-416787 1 (2018-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvio0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision .approved for public release. Matter of: Pitney Bowes, Inc. File: B-416787 Date: December 6, 2018 William A. Shook, Esq., The Law Offices of William A. Shook PLLC, for the protester. Major Ronald Herrmann, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, and Sarah Park, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the agency erred in allowing the awardee to quote equipment under a special item number (SIN) from the awardee's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract rather than the SIN under which the solicitation was issued is denied where the solicitation did not identify an applicable SIN, and the awardee's equipment was available under the awardee's applicable FSS contract. DECISION Pitney Bowes, Inc., of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to Neopost USA Inc., of Milford, Connecticut, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1284010, which was issued by the Department of the Army under the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Schedule No. 36, for postage meter equipment. Pitney Bowes alleges that the Army unreasonably allowed Neopost to quote items from a different special item number (SIN) under its Schedule No. 36 contract rather than the SIN under which the RFQ was issued. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 9, 2018, the Army issued the RFQ for multiple commercial-off-the-shelf postage metering machines for approximately 40 Continental United States installations. RFQ,

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