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B-419972 Oct 18, 2021 1 (2021-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaomia0001 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: Chimes District of Columbia, Inc. File: B-419972 Date: October 18, 2021 Heather Mims, Esq., David R. Warner, Esq., Tyler Freiberger, Esq., and Brandon Graves, Esq., Centre Law and Consulting, LLC, for the protester. Robert Notigan, Esq., and Alexis Webster, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is dismissed where the protester's quotation was found to be technically unacceptable under all non-price evaluation factors but the firm did not challenge its rating of unacceptable under the most important factor, thus failing to establish that it was competitively prejudiced. DECISION Chimes District of Columbia, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland, protests the establishment of a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with South Dade Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (SDAC), of Homestead, Florida, under Request for Quotations (RFQ) No. 47PD0320Q0008, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for engineering, operation and maintenance, and related services for two federal buildings in Washington, D.C. The protester challenges the agency's evaluation of quotations and selection decision. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ, issued on March 16, 2020, sought quotations from holders of GSA Federal Supply Schedule No. 03FAC (Facilities Maintenance and Management) contracts, to establish a single fixed-price BPA under the rules prescribed in Federal Acquisition Regulation section 8.405-3 for a 1-year base period and nine 1-year option periods. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 3; Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1A, Revised

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