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B-401773 1 (2009-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General KWn , Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Science Applications International Corporation File: B-401773 Date: November 10, 2009 James J. McCullough, Esq., and Steven A. Alerding, Esq., Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, for the protester. Daniel R. Forman, Esq., and Jonathan M. Baker, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for Rapiscan, Inc., an intervenor. Dennis J. Gallagher, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation limited competition to vendors holding Federal Supply Schedule contract for required items, issuance of purchase order with items not included on successful vendor's FSS contract was improper. DECISION Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), of San Diego, California, protests the Department of State's issuance of a purchase order to Rapiscan, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. S-WHARC-09-Q-0030, issued to vendors holding General Service Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for gamma ray vehicle and cargo inspection systems. SAIC asserts that Rapiscan should not have received the order because certain of the required items were not included under its FSS contract. We sustain the protest. The RFQ was open to manufacturers under GSA FSS 84, category 426-4K, Metal and Bomb Detection Equipment, and required vendors to include their FSS contract number in their quotations. RFQ § D; Agency Report (AR) at 3. The RFQ included eight line items to be priced by vendors. The agency issued the order to Rapiscan based on its lowest-priced, technically acceptable quotation. SAIC asserts that the

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