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B-400177 1 (2008-07-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawbn0001 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: ECI Defense Group File: B-400177; B-400177.2 Date: July 25, 2008 Howell Roger Riggs, Esq., Timothy P. Pittman, Esq., and Kimberly A. Ford, Esq., Dick Riggs Miller LLP, for the protester. Elan D. Taylor, Esq., and Benjamin G. Perkins, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, 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. Offeror's failure to acknowledge a material amendment to a request for proposals which significantly altered the government's guaranteed minimum quantity renders the proposal unacceptable. 2. Protester is not an interested party to maintain protest challenging proposal evaluation where it did not acknowledge material amendment; protester would be ineligible for award even if protest of evaluation were sustained. DECISION ECI Defense Group protests the award of a contract to Thomas Instrument under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPM4A7-07-R-1322, issued by the Defense Supply Center Richmond (DSCR), Defense Logistics Agency, for aircraft actuator screwshaft assemblies. ECI argues that the agency's evaluation of offerors' proposals was improper. We dismiss the protest on the basis that the protester is not an interested party to challenge the award to Thomas Instrument. The RFP, issued on August 30, 2007, contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract for a base year and four 1-year options. The solicitation informed offerors of the agency's estimated quantity (252), guaranteed minimum quantity (63), minimum delivery order quantity (63), maximum delivery order quantity (252), and maximum quantity (504) for the base year, as well as similar estimated, minimum delivery order, maximum delivery order, and maximum

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