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B-271492 1 (1996-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaeeq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: S.D.M. Supply, Inc. File: B-271492 Date: June 26, 1996 Donald E. Goodroe for the protester. Major Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Department of the Army, for the agency. Adam Vodraska, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency failed to promote competition to the maximum extent practicable under a request for quotations issued on the Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET) using simplified acquisition procedures where the agency failed to maintain adequate procedures for receiving quotations through FACNET, as evidenced by its loss of all of the quotations submitted through FACNET because of a previously identified systemic problem with its computer. DECISION S.D.M. Supply, Inc. protests the issuance of purchase order No. DABTO1-96-V-0248 to New Pig Corporation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. DABTO1-96-T-0112 issued by the U.S. Army Aviation Center, Fort Rucker, Alabama, as a small business, small purchase set-aside, for seven aerosol can puncturing systems.1 S.D.M. contends that the agency failed to consider S.D.M.'s lower-priced quotation which was timely submitted through the Federal Acquisition Computer Network (FACNET). We sustain the protest. FACNET refers to a government-wide electronic commerce/electronic data interchange systems architecture that provides for electronic data interchange of acquisition information between the government and the private sector, employs nationally and internationally recognized data formats, and provides universal user access. Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, 41 U.S.C § 426(a), (b)(3) (1994); Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 4.501 (90-29). FACNET creates an electronic marketplace for the acquisition of supplies and services. That is, through 1These devices are used to render discarded aerosol cans safe for incineration. 1221621

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