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B-416601 1 (2018-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvfh0001 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 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: Dehler Manufacturing Company, Inc. File: B-416601 Date: October 25, 2018 Kristi Morgan Aronica, Esq., Weitz Morgan PLLC, for the protester. Karl W. Kuhn, Esq., and Garry L. Brewer, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Evan Williams, Esq., Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the exclusion of vendor's quotation due to an expired System for Award Management registration is denied where record shows that the agency's determination was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's issuance of a purchase order is denied where the agency reasonably issued the purchase order to another vendor after the protester was found ineligible for award. DECISION Dehler Manufacturing Company, Inc. (Dehler), a small business, located in San Antonio, Texas, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Hi-Tech Bed Systems Corporation (Hi-Tech), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W912DY-18-T-0089, issued by the Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for barracks furniture. The protester argues that the agency improperly determined that it was ineligible for award, and contends that the agency's award to Hi-Tech was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On February 9, 2018, the Corps issued the RFQ as a small business set-aside, using the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4. The RFQ provided for the issuance of a purchase order for various types of barracks furniture at Fort Irwin, California. RFQ at 2. The RFQ provided that the purchase order would be issued on a lowest-priced, technically acceptable basis. Id.

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