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B-406601 1 (2012-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadowz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General 7 Acc u ntability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Crewzers Fire Crew Transport, Inc. File: B-406601 Date: July 11, 2012 Pilgrim Guinn for the protester. Azine Farzami, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. GAO has jurisdiction to decide a protest of an agency's modification of the price evaluation formula stated in blanket purchase agreements (BPA) where the price evaluation scheme for the BPAs forms the basis for the placement of orders under them. 2. Protest of agency's corrective action to modify BPAs is denied where agency reasonably determined that the modification was necessary to correct an error in the price evaluation formula set forth in the BPAs. DECISION Crewzers Fire Crew Transport, Inc., of Apache Junction, Arizona, protests the modification of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) established by the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-8371 -S-1 1-7001, for tents used in seasonal fire suppression efforts. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on November 8, 2010, under the BPA procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 13.3 and the commercial acquisition procedures of FAR part 12, contemplated the establishment of multiple BPAs for a 3-year period against which purchase orders for flame-retardant tents and canopies would be issued by federal and state agencies in the Forest Service's

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