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B-410552 1 (2015-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqwl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General ity * Integrity * Rellability 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 been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Cleo Communications US, LLC File: B-410552 Date: January 6, 2015 Tenley A. Carp, Esq., Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, for the protester. Dal Booth, Ricoh USA, Inc. for the intervenor. Frank V. DiNicola, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, 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 Protest that vendor issued a task order was not capable of providing all required items from its General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule contract is denied where agency reasonably determined that vendor in conjunction with its proposed teaming partners could supply all requirements from their schedule contracts. DECISION Cleo Communications US, LLC, of Chesapeake, Virginia, protests the Department of Veterans Affairs' issuance of a task order to Ricoh USA, Inc., of Malvern, Pennsylvania, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA1 18-14-Q-0631, for a fax and document management system. Cleo asserts that the task order was issued to an entity that did not submit a quotation. In addition, Cleo asserts that the agency unreasonably determined that Ricoh's quotation was technically acceptable. We deny the protest. The solicitation sought a contractor to provide a secure network facsimile solution at specified VA medical centers and to support the rollout of a secure document management system for storage and searching of faxed documents. The solicitation provided that a task order would be issued to the offeror that submitted the lowest- priced, technically acceptable quotation. The competition was limited to vendors holding General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts under schedule number 70, Special Item Number 132-8, by the time quotations were due on September 17, 2014. RFQ at 35. Ricoh submitted the

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