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B-292077.3 1 (2004-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaphk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Computer Associates International, Inc. File: B-292077.3, B-292077.4, B-292077.5 Date: January 22, 2004 Claude P. Goddard, Jr., Esq., J. Michael Littlejohn, Esq., J. William Eshelman, Esq., and Elizabeth M. Gill, Esq., Wickwire Gavin, and James M. Black, Esq., Computer Associates International, Inc., for the protester. Marion T. Cordova, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Under a request for quotations issued in a competitive procurement under the Federal Supply Schedule, protest that the agency improperly made award based on a price discount that had expired by the terms of the vendor's quotation is denied as the vendor's submission was not an offer to which the standard for expired bids generally applies. 2. Protest that the evaluation method used by the agency for the evaluation of vendors' quotations was arbitrary is denied where the evaluation method used was reasonable. 3. Protest that the agency failed to evaluate vendors' quotations consistent with the stated evaluation criteria is denied where the record fails to show that the protester was competitively prejudiced by any such inconsistency. 4. Protest that the agency's evaluation of vendors' quotations and selection decision were based upon the application of an unstated minimum requirement is denied where the record does not support protester's assertion. DECISION Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) protests the issuance of a purchase order to Serena Software, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-OPPM-3- 1007VT, issued by the Office of Procurement and Property Management, Department of Agriculture (USDA), for quotations from Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors

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