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B-420482.2 Oct 12, 2022 1 (2022-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaontm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Office Depot, LLC File: B-420482.2 Date: October 12, 2022 John G. Horan, Esq., Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, for the protester. Nathan Bangsil, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Evan D. Wesser, 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 denied where the evaluation scheme was reasonably supported by historical sales information and market research. 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 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 deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA's Retail Operations group provides what GSA has termed Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL) solutions for Department of Defense and civilian agencies. According to GSA, the 4PL program allows users to focus on core competencies by leveraging GSA's contracting and acquisition experience and the product-fulfillment expertise of industry leaders. Under 4PL, GSA acts as an integrator to manage multiple suppliers specializing in: tools; hardware; maintenance, repair, and operations supplies; and office supplies.

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