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B-401128 1 (2009-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadauj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: li AL A , GA O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Solutions Lucid Group, LLC File: B-401128 Date: April 2, 2009 Lyle Glover for the protester. Elan Taylor, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly failed to give the protester adequate notice of a procurement by failing to send the protester a copy of the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the agency properly provided constructive notice of the procurement to all potential offerors, including the protester, through publication of the solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities website. DECISION Solutions Lucid Group, LLC (SLG) protests the award of a contract to Blond Lighting Fixture Supply Company under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM4A6-08-R-0166, issued by the Defense Supply Center Richmond for fluorescent lamp starters. The protester contends that the agency improperly failed to furnish it with adequate notice of the RFP. We deny the protest. The RFP, which was issued on February 27, 2008, contemplated the award of an indefinite-quantity contract for a base and 4 option years; the estimated annual quantity to be ordered under the contract was 230,892. The RFP was synopsized and posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps) website. The solicitation was amended three times, with a final closing date of December 4, 2008. Five offerors submitted proposals; the protester was not among them. The agency awarded a contract to Blond Lighting Fixture Supply Company on December 23. The protester argues that it did not submit a proposal because it was unaware of the RFP and that this was the agency's fault. SLG maintains that had the agency

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