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B-419853.5 Jul 30, 2021 1 (2021-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaolzz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O 0 U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Inbound, LLC File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States B-419853.5 July 30, 2021 Dillon Sanders, Inbound, LLC, for the protester. Adam Humphries, Esq., Azine Farzami, Esq., and Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. William B. Stupski, Todd Culliton, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST A protest that the agency failed to conduct a price realism analysis is denied where the solicitation contained no express provision stating that the agency could reject proposals for low prices. DECISION Inbound, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Portland, Oregon, protests the establishment of multiple blanket purchase agreements (BPA) with other firms under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1202SC21 Q0001, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, to provide wildland firefighter services. Inbound primarily argues that the agency failed to conduct a price realism analysis in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND On January 27, 2021, the Forest Service issued the RFQ to procure Type 2 wildland firefighter crews for 34 host unit coordinate centers (HUCC) throughout the United States. Agency Report (AR), Tab 7, Conformed RFQ at 1, 4-6.1 The RFQ anticipated the establishment of multiple fixed-price BPAs for a period of 5 years with annual reviews. Id. at 27, 103; AR, Tab 13, Rationale for Establishment Memorandum (REM) 1 References to the conformed RFQ use the Adobe PDF page numbers. GAOi(

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