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B-297077 1 (2005-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: Haworth, Inc. File: B-297077; B-297077.2 Date: November 23, 2005 James J. McCullough, Esq., Deneen J. Melander, Esq., Steven A. Alerding, Esq., and Courtney J. Edmonds, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for the protester. Michael A. Nemeroff, Esq., Patrick K. O'Keefe, Esq., Richard L. Larach, Esq., and Patrick F. Linehan, Esq., Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, for Herman Miller, Inc., an intervenor. Kenneth A. Redden, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest is sustained where agency issued blanket purchase agreement for office furniture to vendor whose quotation did not comply with requirements of request for quotations. 2. Protest is sustained where agency evaluation of protester's quotation for furniture was based on purported weakness under one evaluation criterion, where quotation showed that vendor actually met (or even exceeded) that criterion, and protester was competitively prejudiced because evaluation showed quotations were considered very close under the technical evaluation. DECISION Haworth, Inc. protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Herman Miller, Inc. (HMI) by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under a request for quotations (RFQ) for furniture, including design and installation, for the Potomac Yard Complex buildings in Crystal City, Virginia.' 'We note that the RFQ apparently had no serial number, and is simply identified by the parties as Furniture Procurement for One & Two Potomac Yard, or similar phrasing.

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