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B-272121 1 (1996-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaehq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Gas Monitoring, Inc. File: B-272121 Date: August 30, 1996 Todd Hedgepeth for the protester. Charlma 0. Jones, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Sylvia Schatz, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's sending of request for quotations (RFQ) to incorrect street address, and thereby preventing protester from receiving RFQ and submitting quotation, is not basis for upsetting award where agency had sent previous correspondence to same incorrect address, correspondence was received by protester, and protester never advised agency that it was using incorrect address. DECISION Gas Monitoring, Inc. (GMI) protests the award of a purchase order to Medical Gas Maintenance and Certification, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 673-96-3- 039-0337, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the performance of services related to the medical piping system and alarm activation calibration at the VA Outpatient Clinic (VAOPC), Orlando, Florida. GMI argues that the VA prevented it from submitting a quotation by sending a copy of the RFQ to an incorrect address. We deny the protest. The facts here are straightforward: the agency had the incorrect address for the protester in its vendor file and thus sent a copy of the RFQ to 210, rather than 201, Commonwealth Court, Cary, North Carolina, 27511; as a result, GMI did not receive the RFQ and was unable to submit a quotation. Two quotations were received and award was made to Medical Gas Maintenance and Certification, Inc. at a price of $14,500. GMI argues that, since project estimates it submitted to the agency prior to issuance of the RFQ contained the firm's correct address, the agency had no excuse for sending the RFQ to the wrong address; since this agency error precluded GMI from 1127830

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