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B-416733 1 (2018-11-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvhs0001 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decision .been approved for public release. Matter of: Grant Thornton, LLC File: B-416733 Date: November 29, 2018 Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., Brittin Law Group, PLLC, and Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq. and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter Mcwhorter PLC, for the protester. Stephan Piel, Esq., Department of Defense, and Sarah Park, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging a solicitation's requirements for quoting labor categories from vendors' Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts is sustained where the agency does not reasonably justify solicitation provisions that restrict the circumstances under which a vendor's FSS contract may be considered within the scope of the solicitation's requirements. DECISION Grant Thornton, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, challenges the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. HQ003418R0198, which was issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Washington Headquarters Services, for auditing support services. The protester argues that the solicitation, which was issued under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) provisions of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, is unduly restrictive of competition because it requires vendors to quote labor categories from their FSS contracts that align precisely with the minimum years of experience in the RFQ. We sustain the protest.

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