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B-293089 1 (2004-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyny0001 and id is 1 raw text is: . . Accountablllty * Integrity Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Comptroller General of the United States D .. Decision Matter of: Aerotek Scientific LLC File: Date: B-293089 January 23, 2004 Richard P. Rector, Esq., and Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for the protester. W. Thomas Newell, Esq., for Top Echelon Contracting, Inc., an intervenor. Barbara J. Stuetzer, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Linda S. Lebowitz, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably issued a blanket purchase agreement against a vendor's Federal Supply Schedule contract where that vendor's higher technically rated, low priced quotation was determined to represent the best value to the government and where the protester, whose quotation was higher priced, failed to demonstrate how it was prejudiced by some flaws in the agency's technical evaluation. DECISION Aerotek Scientific LLC protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Top Echelon Contracting, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. M8-Q11-03, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for non-personal staffing services for the Dallas Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP)' facility in Lancaster, Texas. Aerotek, which submitted a higher priced quotation than Top Echelon, challenges the VA's evaluation of quotations. 'The CMOP system is the principal means by which prescriptions are dispensed to veterans and other authorized persons.

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