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B-407086 1 (2012-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpcv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L SG A O Comptroller General LAccountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Infoshred LLC File: B-407086 Date: October 26, 2012 James H. Howard, Esq., Phelon, FitzGerald & Wood, P.C., for the protester. Jeanne S. Morris, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where agency rejected awardee's quote for failure to acknowledge an amendment that was immaterial and did not impose any legal obligations on the contractor in addition to those to which it had already agreed. DECISION Infoshred LLC, of East Windsor, Connecticut, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) decision to reject its quotation for failure to acknowledge a solicitation amendment under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA-241-12-Q-0541, awarded to Shred-it USA, Inc., of Rockville, Maryland for shredding services at VA facilities in Connecticut. Infoshred contends that the amendment was immaterial and a failure to acknowledge it could not provide the basis for rejection of the firm's proposal. We sustain the protest. The RFQ, issued on April 19, 2012 via the General Services Administration (GSA) e-Buy system to vendors holding GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, contemplates the establishment of a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA), under which yearly fixed-price task orders for shredding services will be issued. On April 26, the VA issued an amended solicitation (Amendment 1) that contained an updated statement of work and a list of questions and answers. As relevant here, Amendment 1 contained the following question and answer: The solicitation says on-site shredding services. Is on-site or off-site shredding required?

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