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B-419853.2 Aug 19, 2021 1 (2021-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaombt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo 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 Decision Matter of: GE Forestry, Inc. File: B-419853.2 Date: August 19, 2021 Esteban Gonzalez, GE Forestry, Inc., for the protester. Adam Humphries, Esq., Azine Farzami, Esq., and Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Christine Milne, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly evaluated protester's quotation as technically unacceptable and ineligible for award is denied where the record shows that the quotation was reasonably evaluated in accordance with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION GE Forestry, Inc., of Central Point, Oregon, a small business, protests the establishment of blanket purchase agreements (BPA) with multiple other firms under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1202SC21 Q0001, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for wildland firefighter services. GE contends that its quotation was misevaluated as no-go under the RFQ's quote acceptability factor. We deny the protest. 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.1 Agency Report (AR) Tab 7, Conformed RFQ at 1, 4-6.2 The RFQ 1 Forest Service handcrews, typically comprised of 20 men and women, serve as the infantry of wildland firefighters. See Handcrews, https://www.fs.usda.gov/science- technology/fire/people/handcrews (last visited, July 7, 2021). There are five types of handcrews: Type 1 Interagency Hotshot Crews; Type 1; Type 2--Initial Attack; Type 2; and Type 3. Id. 2 References to the Conformed RFQ use the Adobe PDF page numbers.

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