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B-270592.2 1 (1996-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadzr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Global Industries, Inc. File: B-270592.2; B-270592.3; B-270592.4; B-270592.5 Date: March 29, 1996 Richard S. Ewing, Esq., James A. Dobkin, Esq., John D. Roesser, Esq., Arnold & Porter, for the protester. S. Gregg Kunzi, Esq., Thomas L. McGovern III, Esq., and David W. Burgett, Esq., Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., for Nightingale, Inc., an intervenor. C. Joseph Carroll, Esq., and Jonathan Cramer, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., Glenn Wolcott, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions in a procurement for ergonomic chairs where it did not identify evaluated problems with the comfort of the protester's chairs which were of serious concern to the agency's evaluators but were considered to be correctable. DECISION Global Industries, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Nightingale, Inc. by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., doing business under the trade name UNICOR, under request for proposals (RFP) No. IPI-R-0315-95. Global protests, among other things, that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplated the award of a 5-year fixed-price requirements contract to provide two lines of office chairs, the Economy Ergonomic and the Medium Range Ergonomic. Within each chair line, offerors were required to propose specified models, plus a variety of options, applicable to the different models being offered, such as soft wheel casters, seat angle adjustment, and adjustable lumbar support. The chairs were to be purchased from the awardee in the form of chair kits that would be assembled by inmates, and then marketed by UNICOR. The RFP 148827

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