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B-294120 1 (2004-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountab~ity Inert Ready United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Altos Federal Group, Inc. File: B-294120 Date: July 28, 2004 James S. DelSordo, Esq., Halloran & Sage, for the protester. Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and William J. Grimaldi, Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding, for InteliStaf Healthcare, Inc., an intervenor. Dennis Foley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Where request for quotations for nursing services announced agency's intention to select a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contractor, vendors were effectively placed on notice that agency intended to acquire all services using FSS procedures and hence that all services were required to be within the scope of the vendor's (or its subcontractors') FSS contract(s). 2. Where protester failed to specify in its quotation that it would be using a subcontractor to provide services not included in its own FSS contract, agency properly rejected quotation on the basis that protester's FSS contract did not include all requested services. DECISION Altos Federal Group, Inc. protests the rejection of its quotation and the issuance of a task order to InteliStaf Healthcare, Inc., under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 673- 90F-04-003A, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for nursing services at the Wilford Hall Medical Treatment Facility, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.' Altos contends that the agency improperly evaluated its quotation on the basis of criteria not set forth in the RFQ. We deny the protest. ' VA conducted the acquisition on behalf of the Air Force.

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