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B-412307 1 (2016-01-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadruu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * 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 approved for public release. Matter of: Advanced Decisions Vectors, Inc. File: B-412307 Date: January 11, 2016 Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., and Matthew C. Glover, Esq., Protorae Law PLLC, for the protester. Paul B. Oman, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision not to consider vendor's quotation is denied where the quotation was not timely received by the agency in a manner consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Advanced Decisions Vectors, Inc. (ADV), a small, disadvantaged business located in Alexandria, Virginia, protests the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision not to consider its quotation pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. HSHQDC-15-00358, issued by DHS for interagency security compliance support services. ADV disputes DHS' determination that ADV failed to submit its quotation to the proper email address identified in the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DHS issued the RFQ via the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy system on August 24, 2015, under the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4 to vendors holding contracts under GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) No. 874, mission oriented business integrated services (MOBIS).1 1 The e-Buy portal is designated in FAR subpart 8.4 as GSA's electronic RFQ system where ordering activities post requirements. FAR § 8.402(d).

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