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B-411520 1 (2015-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrig0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: FitNet International Corporation File: B-411520 Date: August 14, 2015 Raul Espinosa, FitNet International Corporation, for the protester. Major Travis P. Sommer, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's use of FedBid for a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) purchase is denied where the agency complied with the applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) provision--and considered at least three schedule contractors--as necessary to solicit the requirement through the FSS program. DECISION FitNet International Corporation, of Saint Augustine, Florida, a small business, protests the terms of solicitation No. 10662601, issued by the Department of the Army, Army National Guard Bureau-Rhode Island, for two treadmills to be delivered to the Combined Support Maintenance Facility, in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. FitNet argues that this solicitation improperly limits competition to Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 4, 2015, the Army posted the solicitation on the FedBid website for a reverse auction for two Spirit Fitness CT800 treadmills. 1 Agency Report (AR) at 1; Solicitation at 1. The solicitation, a small-business set-aside, restricted the 1 FedBid, Inc. is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a website at FedBid.com, which among other things, hosts reverse auctions.

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