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B-414785 1 (2017-09-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtve0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G&O U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE 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: Bluewater Management Group, LLC File: B-414785 Date: September 18, 2017 Daniel Strouse, Esq., and John J. O'Brien, Esq., Cohen Mohr LLP, for the protester. Jonathan T. Williams, Esq., and Kathryn V. Flood, Esq., Piliero Mazza, LLC, for DMC Management Services, LLC, the intervenor. Johanna Crawford, Esq., and Max Jenkins, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of the issuance of a task order to a firm pursuant to the firm's Federal Supply Schedule contract is sustained where the agency failed to consider whether the services offered by the firm are included in its schedule contract, and the record establishes that the firm's quotation was based on providing a service not included in its schedule contract. DECISION Bluewater Management Group, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, of Norfolk, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to DMC Management Services, LLC under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N32205-16-R-2374 (e-Buy No. 1117467), issued by the Department of the Navy, Military Sealift Command, to small business holders of the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) 48, for lodging and transportation services. Bluewater contends that the award was improper because DMC's schedule contract did not include the transportation services sought by the solicitation. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ via the GSA's e-Buy system pursuant to the procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to procure temporary lodging

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