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B-405245 1 (2011-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadofr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: J G A Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Newsun, Inc. File: B-405245 Date: September 28, 2011 Eric M. Sundin for the protester. Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Isaias Alba IV, Esq., and Patrick Rothwell, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for Standard Communications, Inc., an intervenor. Kathleen K. Barksdale, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency misevaluated protester's quotation as unacceptable is denied where solicitation, as amended to include agency's answers to vendor's questions, specified that vendors were required to propose a specific type of telephone technology, and protester's approach that proposed a different technology with adapters was therefore reasonably evaluated as unacceptable. DECISION Newsun, Inc., doing business as Internal Computer Services (ICS), of Richmond, Virginia, a small business, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Standard Communications, Inc., of Hume, Virginia, by the General Services Administration (GSA), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. R3104379, for replacement of the voice telephone system at the Wilmington, Delaware Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center, and nine satellite locations. ICS argues that its quotation was unreasonably rejected as unacceptable. We deny the protest. On March 9, 2011, the GSA posted the RFQ on FedBizOpps.gov, seeking quotations from service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) firms, for placement of a single commercial item purchase order. The RFQ requested quotations consisting of a technical volume describing the offeror's technical solution and past performance, and a price volume detailing the offeror's fixed price. The

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