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B-420482 May 03, 2022 1 (2022-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaoncs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.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: Office Depot, LLC File: B-420482 Date: May 3, 2022 John G. Horan, Esq., Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, for the protester. Nathan C. Bangsil, Esq., and Nathan C. Guerrero, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. 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 a solicitation's technical and price evaluation factors are unreasonable because they fail to reasonably reflect the government's anticipated requirements is sustained where the evaluation scheme was predicated on consideration of incomplete historical sales information. DECISION Office Depot, LLC, of Columbia, Maryland, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QSCC-21-Q-5002, which was issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), for the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to support GSA retail operations at eight U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force locations. The protester primarily alleges that the agency's technical and price evaluation factors are unreasonable because they are based on a market basket of representative items that fails to reasonably account for the government's actual likely requirements. We sustain the protest. OVERVIEW This protest challenges GSA's attempt to use a single BPA to consolidate the purchase of hardware and industrial supply items, and office supply items, and to permit these items to be ordered by eight Army and Air Force locations. Although the BPA will permit the ordering of tens of thousands of available items, GSA attempted to develop a representative market basket of the 200 most frequently purchased items to evaluate and compare the pricing received from competing vendors. The market basket was

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