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B-422434 Jun 17, 2024 1 (2024-06-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqmk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Diltex, Inc. File: B-422434 Date: June 17, 2024 Dil Singh for the protester. Robert Roth for Access Products, Inc., an intervenor. Kristen M. Nowadly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's determination that protester's quotation was ineligible for establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) is denied where the record reflects that the BPA would extend beyond the current term of the protester's General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract. 2. Protester is not an interested party to challenge the agency's establishment of a BPA with another vendor where the BPA was to be issued under a vendor's GSA schedule contract and the protester's schedule contract lacked a sufficient remaining period of performance to cover the potential duration of the anticipated BPA. DECISION Diltex, Inc., a small business located in West Covina, California, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Access Products, Inc., a small business of Colorado Springs, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QSEA-23-Q-0018, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, for general purpose commercial information technology equipment. The RFQ sought to establish multiple BPAs with vendors holding contracts under GSA Multiple Award Schedule special item number (SIN) 33411, for purchasing of new electronic equipment.' The protester contends that the quotation of Access Products 1 The agency also established BPAs with the following small business vendors, which Diltex does not challenge: Sterling Computers, of North Sioux City, South Dakota; Westwind Computer Products, of Albuquerque, New Mexico; OSI Federal (continued...)

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