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B-278298 1 (1998-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahnw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Midmark Corporation File: B-278298 Date: January 14, 1998 Dick Moorman, Jerry Stahl, and Olive Tumbusch for the protester. Charles D. Kellam for Enochs Manufacturing, Inc., an intervenor. Col. Nicholas P. Retson, Maj. Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., and Fredrick M. Lewis, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly placed an order with Federal Supply Schedule vendor offering the lowest price for equipment meeting the agency's needs. DECISION Midmark Corporation protests the issuance of delivery order No. DAKF23-97-F-0524 to Enochs Manufacturing, Inc. by the Department of the Army for medical examination tables for the Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (BACH) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. The delivery order was placed under Enochs's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract. We deny the protest. After receiving a purchase request from BACH for 119 medical examination tables, the contracting officer decided to purchase the requirement under the FSS program. The FSS program, directed and managed by the General Services Administration (GSA), provides federal agencies with a simplified process for obtaining commonly used commercial supplies and services at prices associated with volume buying. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 8.401(a). When placing an order under an FSS, an agency is not required to seek further competition, synopsize the solicitation or award, or determine fair and reasonable pricing, since the planning, solicitation, and award phases of the FSS satisfy these FAR requirements. FAR § 8.404(a); Design Contempo, Inc., B-270483, Mar. 12, 1996, 96-1 CPD 146 at 2. The BACH purchase request was for an examination table with a pelvic tilt and listed the Midmark Model No. 405 as a compliant model. The contract specialist checked the FSS catalog to assess whether there were other examination tables that

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