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B-419884,B-419884.3,B-419884.4 Aug 02, 2021 1 (2021-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaolzp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: The Noble Attorney, LLC; American Medical Equipment, Inc. File: B-419884; B-419884.3; B-419884.4 Date: August 2, 2021 Carol A. Thompson, Esq., Eric S. Montalvo, Esq., and Haley Freking, Esq., The Federal Practice Group, for The Noble Attorney, LLC; and Carol A. Thompson, Esq., The Federal Practice Group, for American Medical Equipment, Inc., the protesters. Natica Chapman Neely, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Raymond Richards, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests that the agency unreasonably awarded reprocurement contracts for a quantity of goods greater than the undelivered quantity under terminated contracts are dismissed where the agency has provided evidence showing that the challenged awards were not reprocurements, but rather, were awards made under the same multiple-award solicitation which resulted in awards to the protesting firms. DECISION The Noble Attorney, LLC (Noble) of Miami Beach, Florida, and American Medical Equipment, Inc. (American Medical) of Memphis, Tennessee, protest the award of contracts to Atlantic Trading, LLC (Atlantic) of Austin, Texas, and Bizcon LLC of Council Bluffs, Iowa, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 36C24921 Q0115, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), for the provision of nitrile examination gloves. The protesters argue that the awards to Atlantic and Bizcon were reprocurements that violated applicable regulations. We dismiss the protests. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on February 9, 2021, under the commercial item procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, and the simplified acquisition procedures

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