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B-406372 1 (2012-05-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadous0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Tipton Textile Rental, Inc. File: B-406372 Date: May 9, 2012 Cynthia Malyszek, Esq., Malyszek & Malyszek, for the protester. John W. Gannan, II, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency misevaluated awardee's quotation is sustained where solicitation required a barrier wall to achieve physical separation of soiled linens from cleaned linens, and awardee's quotation failed to comply with this requirement. 2. Under small business set-aside, contracting officer must have representation from the awardee of its status as a small business, and therefore, award of contract to a vendor whose quotation represented that the firm is not a small business concern is improper notwithstanding contracting officer's belief that vendor was confused by layout of small business representation and contracting officer's retrieval of a central contractor registry listing for a firm having a slightly different name, in which that firm was described as a small business. 3. Protest that agency misevaluated protester's quotation as unacceptable is sustained where agency initiated discussions by its inquiries to protester by telephone and during subsequent site visit by evaluators, but the agency based its evaluation only on the firm's original quotation, without considering the protester's responses to the agency's inquiries. DECISION Tipton Textile Rental, Inc., of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Linen King L.L.C., of Bixby, Oklahoma, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA255-12-Q-0125 for linens supply and commercial laundry service at two VA medical centers in St. Louis, Missouri. Tipton argues that the VA improperly accepted the awardee's quotation notwithstanding its failure to meet the solicitation requirements, improperly rejected Tipton's quotation as unacceptable, and conducted improper discussions.

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