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B-413533 1 (2016-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsrh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Bluehorse Corporation File: B-413533 Date: October 28, 2016 Akenaten Bluehorse, for the protester. Charles B. Wallace, Esq., and Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to properly publicize and solicit quotations for diesel fuel requirement valued between $15,000 and $25,000, and thereby failed to obtain maximum practicable competition, is sustained where the agency placed the solicitation in a binder in a closed building on Saturday, seeking quotations by Monday, and one of three sources solicited was a propane supplier that was thus unlikely to be able to submit a quotation for diesel fuel. DECISION Bluehorse Corporation (Bluehorse), of Reno, Nevada, a small business, protests the award of a contract to Recon Oil Co., Inc., of Window Rock, Arizona, by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), under solicitation No. Al 6PS01 057 to supply diesel fuel to the Mariano Lake Community School, a Navajo District school operated by the Bureau of Indian Education, in Crownpoint, New Mexico. Bluehorse argues that the BIA improperly limited competition for the contract by failing to publicize the solicitation properly. We sustain the protest. The BIA issued the solicitation on Saturday, July 30, 2016, as a request for quotations (RFQ). The RFQ was prepared under the procedures for the streamlined acquisition of commercial items, as provided in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 12.6. RFQ at 1; Dismissal Request at 1. The RFQ set

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