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B-417269 1 (2019-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzfl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAtOU.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 version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Noble Supply & Logistics File: B-417269 Date: April 30, 2019 Gary J. Campbell, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., and Nathaniel J. Greeson, Esq., Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, for the protester. Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Anne B. Perry, Esq., Katie A. Calogero, Esq., and Eliazar M. Chacha, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for W.W. Grainger, Inc., the intervenor. Alissa J. K. Schrider, Esq., and Tyler J. Mullen, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the establishment of a noncompetitive logical follow-on blanket purchase agreement (BPA) is denied where the establishment of the BPA was reasonably in the interest of economy and efficiency pursuant to the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C). 2. Protest that the agency's decision to award a noncompetitive logical follow-on BPA resulted from the agency's failure to engage in adequate advance planning is denied where the agency's decision was reasonable pursuant to the authority of FAR § 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C). 3. Supplemental protest allegations based on a materially different legal basis than the initially submitted protest allegations are dismissed as untimely where they were filed more than 10 days after the basis for the supplemental protest allegations was known or should have been known. DECISION Noble Supply & Logistics, a small business, of Rockland, Massachusetts, protests the establishment of a sole-source blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with W.W. Grainger, Inc., of Lake Forest, Illinois, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. QSRA-RFQ-1 8005, which was issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), for industrial supplies

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