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B-414406 1 (2017-06-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtmv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE I The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Innovation Associates, Inc. File: B-414406 Date: June 6, 2017 Stuart B. Nibley, Esq., Amy M. Conant, Esq., and Erica L. Bakies, Esq., K&L Gates LLP, for the protester. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., Fernand A. Lavallee, Esq., and Alexander M. Yabroff, Esq., Jones Day, for Arxium, Inc., an intervenor. Jared P. Weissberger, Esq., and Lillian S. Weiss, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that awardee's proposed solution for providing robotic pharmaceutical automation systems failed to meet several of the solicitation's minimum requirements is sustained where record shows that the offered system failed to meet two material requirements. DECISION Innovation Associates, Inc. of Johnson City, New York, protests the issuance of four delivery orders to Arxium, Inc. (AI), of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, under that firm's federal supply schedule (FSS) contract pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1019219, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for robotic pharmaceutical equipment. Innovation Associates argues that Al's quotation was technically unacceptable, and therefore ineligible for award. We sustain the protest in part and deny it in part. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued by DLA to acquire robotic pharmaceutical automation systems at four large-volume refill centers on behalf of the Air Force to be installed at various Air Force military treatment facilities. The solicitation contemplates the issuance of fixed- price delivery orders to the firm submitting the lowest-priced, technically acceptable

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