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B-419311 1 (2020-12-16)

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G     r    ~o      U.S. GOVERNMENT   ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States




Decision


Matter of:  One  Community  Auto, LLC

File:       B-419311

Date:       December  16, 2020

Gary Peterson for the protester.
Captain Ethan Chae, Sean Connolly, Esq., and Andrew J. Smith, Esq., Department of
the Army, for the agency.
Hannah  G. Barnes, and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging an agency's evaluation of protester's quotation under the price
evaluation factor is dismissed where the record shows that the solicitation contained a
patent ambiguity that the vendor did not raise prior to submission of its quotation.
DECISION

One  Community Auto, LLC (OCA), a small business of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
protests the issuance of a requirements contract to Iron Horse Logistics, a small
business of Durango, Colorado, under request for quotations (RFQ)
No. W911S720Q0024,   issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Mission and
Installation Contracting Command, to purchase what the agency terms contact cars for
use at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.1 The protester argues that the solicitation's
evaluation factors were ambiguous or indefinite, and challenges the agency's
evaluation of its quotation. Protest at 1.

We  dismiss the protest.






1 The solicitation describes these cars as mid-sized or larger four-door sedans or station
wagons  required to meet certain minimum specifications that were detailed in the
solicitation. RFQ at 3, 11.

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