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B-406726 1 (2012-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadoyi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AL G A O0 Comptroller General WIN Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: U.S. Hotel Sourcing, LLC File: B-406726 Date: August 13, 2012 Jon Hansen for the protester. William H. Butterfield, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for the agency. Jonathan M. Kucskar, Esq., Paula J. Haurilesko, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. GAO will not review a protest that an agency was required to extend the performance of the protester's existing order, rather than soliciting competition for the issuance of a new order. 2. Protest that an agency did not synopsize its simplified acquisition requirement is denied, where the agency reasonably found that the requirement was too urgent to allow public posting of the solicitation. 3. Where a request for quotations does not identify any evaluation factors or inform vendors of the basis for the agency's award selection, price is necessarily the only factor considered. DECISION U.S. Hotel Sourcing, LLC of Newton, Massachusetts, protests the issuance of order No. HSCG85-12-F-P45G34 to Bluewater Management Group, of Norfolk, Virginia, by the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard, for berthing and messing services. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On March 23, 2012, the Coast Guard solicited quotations under the streamlined commercial acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart

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