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B-310031 1 (2007-09-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaujg0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: FitNet Purchasing Alliance File: B-310031 Date: September 21, 2007 Raul Espinosa for the protester. Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Dennis Foley, Esq., and Philip Kauffman, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the cancellation of a reverse auction solicitation, and the decision to reissue the solicitation limited to Federal Supply Schedule vendors is dismissed in part, and denied in part, where the record shows that the protester was not in line for award of the canceled solicitation, and is therefore not an interested party to challenge the cancellation decision, and where the agency acted properly in reissuing the solicitation limited to Federal Supply Schedule vendors. DECISION FitNet Purchasing Alliance, a small business, protests the cancellation and reposting of a reverse auction under solicitation No. 213-0220 by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for specific models of Zenith brand hospital-grade 20-inch television sets and Peerless brand mounts, to be delivered to the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System in Florida. FitNet asserts that the cancellation lacked a reasonable basis, and that when the VA subsequently reposted the same requirement, it improperly limited the competition to Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors. We dismiss the protest in part and deny it in part. On August 2, 2007, a VA purchasing agent used the FedBid website to commence an electronic reverse auction for 170 televisions and mounts, at a target price of $97,495. This first version of the reverse auction posting was designated by FedBid

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