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B-265987 1 (1996-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadtq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Vantage Products Corporation File: B-265987 Date: January 3, 1996 Walter W. Leach III, Esq., for the protester. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protester has provided no basis to object to the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) procurement of only thermoplastic/thermosetting graveliners under a national requirements contract for use in various VA cemeteries, but not concrete graveliners--which are procured locally--where the protester's basic objection is that suppliers of the plastic graveliners have a competitive disadvantage because their prices are disclosed under the award of the national contract, but VA only procures concrete graveliners when the local office determines that they meet their burial needs and orders from the national contract when plastic graveliners meet their needs. DECISION Vantage Products Corporation protests the terms of invitation for bids (IFB) No. 101(402D3)-1-96, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to acquire thermoplastic/thermosetting graveliners under a single nationwide requirements contract for use in various VA cemetery sites within the contiguous United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Vantage contends that the effect of this procurement is to prevent manufacturers of thermoplastic/thermosetting graveliners, like Vantage, from competing equally with manufacturers of concrete graveliners because concrete graveliners are procured locally after the plastic graveliner's prices have been exposed under this requirements contract. Vantage requests that either the national IFB be amended to permit suppliers of concrete graveliners to compete, or that this IFB be canceled and all graveliners (concrete and plastic) be procured locally on an equal basis. We deny the protest. 65513

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