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B-409627 1 (2014-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqkd0001 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: AeroSage LLC File: B-409627 Date: July 2, 2014 David M. Snyder, for the protester. William D. Robinson, Esq., and Sarah Bloom, Esq., Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where an agency requested quotations for fuel, with next-day delivery required, via the FedBid reverse auction website, and the protester, the lowest-priced technically acceptable vendor, responded timely and affirmatively to a FedBid Bid Validation request, but did not timely respond to the contracting officer's concurrent shorter-deadline, telephonic request for confirmation, leading the contracting officer to make the award to second lowest-priced vendor. DECISION AeroSage LLC, of Tampa, Florida, protests the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prison's (BOP) placement of an order with W.G. Pitts Company, Inc., of Jacksonville, Florida, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DJBP0302NP210047, FedBid Buy No. 594154_02, for next-day delivery of 6,000 gallons of unleaded fuel for the FCC Coleman Federal Prison, Coleman, Florida. The protester asserts that, although it was the lowest-priced, technically acceptable vendor, it was improperly denied award. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, a small business set-aside, was posted on the FedBid website as a reverse auction on March 11, 2014, with a closing time of 12:00 Noon on March 12, and a delivery time of 9:00 a.m., on March 13. The contracting officer (CO) states:

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