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B-402239 1 (2010-02-22)

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  United States Government Accountability Office
  Washington, DC 20548

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          Decision


          Matter  of:  Ricoh America's Corporation

          File:        B-402239

          Date:        February 22, 2010

          Anthony Massey  for the protester.
          Capt. Bridget E. Keenan, Department of the Army, for the agency.
          Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
          GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          In a commercial-item acquisition conducted using two-step sealed bid procedures, a
          protest that awardee's multi-functional devices (MFD), commonly referred to as
          copiers, are technically unacceptable and were not on the firm's General Services
          Administration (GSA) schedule contract is denied, where the record confirms that
          the awardee's MFDs met all of the requirements of the solicitation and are, in fact, on
          the firm's GSA schedule contract.
          DECISION

          Ricoh America's Corporation of West Caldwell, New Jersey, protests the award of a
          contract to Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., issued by the Department
          of the Army under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W91 1S7-09-T-0053 for
          multi-functional devices (MFD), commonly referred to as copiers, for Fort Leonard
          Wood  in Missouri.

          We  deny the protest.

          The solicitation contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for cost per copy
          MFDs  for a base year, with four 1-year options. RFQ at 7. These MFDs were to
          include six different volume band copiers for both black and white, and color
          copies. Id. at 6. The acquisition was to be conducted using the commercial item
          acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 along with
          the two-step sealed bid procedures of FAR Part 14. Step one of the evaluation

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