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B-409442 1 (2014-04-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqgj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Latvian Connection General Trading and Construction, LLC File: B-409442 Date: April 25, 2014 Keven L. Barnes, Latvian Connection General Trading and Construction, LLC, for the protester. Capt. Evan Williams, Department of the Army, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly failed to publish notice of solicitation on Federal Business Opportunity website is denied where solicitation was for a contract action by a defense agency to be performed outside the United States and only local vendors were being solicited, as anticipated by Federal Acquisition Regulation § 5.202(a)(12). 2. Procuring agency conducting procurement using simplified acquisition procedures is not required to obtain full and open competition, but instead, must obtain competition to the maximum extent practicable. DECISION Latvian Connection General Trading and Construction, LLC, of Kuwait City, Kuwait, protests the Department of the Army's issuance of request for quotations (RFQ) No. W912D2-14-T-001 6, for 15-passenger vans, model year 2008 or later. We deny the protest. The RFQ, for the lease of four 15-passenger vans to move troops and equipment in the United Arab Emirates, was issued using the simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 13. The RFQ was provided to three local vendors on January 23, 2014. Under the RFQ as amended, quotations were due on January 26. On January 24, the Army provided the protester a copy of the RFQ in response to Latvian's expression of interest earlier that day. Also on January 24, the protester filed its protest with our Office. A total of four vendors, including

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