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B-412503 1 (2016-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General V E Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Phoenix Environmental Design, Inc. File: B-412503 Date: March 7, 2016 Colin Chad Gill for the protester. Craig T.Donavan, Esq., and Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that an agency did not provide proper notice of a solicitation for a purchase order is denied where the purchase order was expected to be valued lower than the $25,000 threshold requiring use of the government-wide portal of entry, FedBizOpps, for such notice, and the agency displayed notice of the solicitation on the agency's publicly accessible procurement website. DECISION Phoenix Environmental Design, Inc., of Newman Lake, Washington, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Walking Point Farms, LLC, of Tigard, Oregon, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. L16PS00024, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for the provision of herbicide chemicals for use on public lands in the field offices of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) West Desert District office. Phoenix alleges that it was prevented from competing for this award because the agency did not provide adequate notice of the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 29, 2015, the agency issued a prior solicitation, RFQ No. 1012918 (FSS RFQ), under the General Services Administration (GSA) e-Buy program to Federal

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