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B-419009.2 1 (2020-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecfh0001 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 version has been approved for public release without any redactions Matter of: Innovative Quality Solutions, LLC File: B-419009.2 Date: December 17, 2020 Shane J. McCall, Esq., Christopher S. Coleman, Esq., Nicole D. Pottroff, Esq., and Quinten R. Fisher, Esq., Koprince Law, LLC, for the protester. Felecia R. McBride, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly decided to pursue an unrestricted full and open competition after taking corrective action on a procurement previously set aside for small businesses is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably found that the protester's quotation was nonresponsive and therefore there were no small businesses eligible for award. DECISION Innovative Quality Solutions, LLC (IQS), of Grandview, Missouri, challenges the corrective action taken by the Department of Transportation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 6913G6200300058, for two railway car spotters. IQS argues that the agency unreasonably determined that IQS's quotation was nonresponsive, and that the agency should have made award to IQS as the only remaining eligible small business rather than cancel the set-aside decision to pursue a full and open competition as part of corrective action. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued the RFQ under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, acquisition of commercial items, and FAR subpart 13.5, simplified acquisition procedures, as a small business set-aside for two railway car spotters for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Agency Report (AR), Tab A, RFQ at 1. The RFQ contemplated award of a single, fixed-price purchase order.

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