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B-401221 1 (2009-05-05)

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   IL

   ~GAO
,   Accountabilfty * Integrity * Reliability
  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548

              D   ..
          Decision


          Matter  of:  SDV Furniture & Services, LLC


File:

Date:


Comptroller General
of the United States


B-401221

May 5, 2009


Alan Lenowitz, SDV Furniture & Services, LLC, for the protester.
CPT John  Cho, Department of the Army, for the agency.
Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Under brand name or equal solicitation, bid which offered similar furniture items,
but with different dimensions than those listed in the solicitation, was properly
rejected as nonresponsive.

2. Protest against requirements set forth in solicitation is untimely when filed after
bid opening.
DECISION

SDV  Furniture & Services, LLC, of Atlanta, Georgia, protests the rejection of its low
bid as nonresponsive under solicitation No. W45CMJ90480001, issued by the
Department  of the Army for office partitions and supports, task chairs, and tables to
be used at training facilities for soldiers at Fort Hood.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On March  18, 2009, the agency used the FedBid website to commence an electronic
reverse auction for 20 parallel partitions, 40 T-legs to support the partitions, 85
ergonomic task-chairs, and 55 tables at a target price of $34,095.' This posting was


1 FedBid, Inc. is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a
website at FedBid.com, which among other things, hosts reverse auctions.

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