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B-409528.35,B-409528.36 1 (2014-12-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadquo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General r Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision [...been approvedfor release. Matter of: Industries for the Blind, Inc. File: B-409528.35; B-409528.36 Date: December 3, 2014 Thomas A. Coulter, Esq., and Nicole Hardin Brakstad, Esq., LeClair Ryan PC, for the protester. Holly A. Roth, Esq., and Elizabeth C. Johnson, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for Capitol Supply Inc., the intervenor. Christopher Murphy, Esq., and Kristen Nowadly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably excluded the protester, an other than small business, from award is denied where the agency reasonably limited the award to small businesses based on the language of the solicitation, and where, to the extent the evaluation criteria were ambiguous, the protester failed to timely protest any patent ambiguities. DECISION Industries for the Blind, Inc. (IB), of West Allis, Wisconsin, an other than small business, protests the award of contracts to 13 small business firms and two service-disabled, veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) firms by the General Services Administration (GSA) under request for proposals (RFP) No. GSQ02-14- R-SA0001, contract line item number (CLIN) No. 1, for a full range of office supply items that will be available for order by participating agencies.1 lB argues that the agency failed to evaluate the proposals in accordance with the evaluation criteria. Specifically, the protester contends that the agency failed to conduct a best-value evaluation that meaningfully considered IB's price. 1 IB is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit entity, dedicated to providing employment opportunities to blind professionals. IB is not related to, or affiliated with, National Industries for the Blind. Protest at 5 n.l.

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