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G A 0Comptroller General
KA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
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Decision
Matter of: 3SG Corporation
File: B-298957
Date: January 5, 2007
Jasmine Sornabala, Esq., for the protester.
Dennis Foley, Esq., Philip Kauffman, Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq.,
Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency.
John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency improperly rejected a quotation for failing to comply with a solicitation
requirement that the services be performed at the agency's facility, where the
quotation expressly stated that the firm would perform the services at the agency's
facility, and the agency's interpretation of other terms of the quotation as taking
exception with this requirement was unreasonable.
DECISION
3SG Corporation protests the issuance of an order to Xerox Corporation under that
firm's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations
(RFQ) No. 176078, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for a scanning
and archival solution for the VA's Healthcare and Regional Office at the VA Medical
Center (VAMC) in Anchorage, Alaska.
We sustain the protest.
The RFQ described the estimated 75,000 pages of documents to be scanned and
archived as in good condition and on white and color paper stock, and provided
that [f]inal format for delivery will be PDF Searchable Text format. The
solicitation set forth a number of Scanning & Archival requirements, stating, for
example, that [i]maging will be performed at the Veterans Administration facility in
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