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B-420533,B-420533.2 May 23, 2022 1 (2022-05-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaonhm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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: Chicago American Manufacturing LLC File: B-420533; B-420533.2 Date: May 23, 2022 Daniel P. Graham, Esq., and Llewelyn M. Engel, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, for the protester. Todd M. Garland, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for Inovo, Inc., the intervenor. B. Seth Johnson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's issuance of a delivery order to a firm under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is sustained where the awardee quoted a product under its FSS contract that does not meet the requirements of the solicitation. DECISION Chicago American Manufacturing LLC (CAM), of Chicago, Illinois, protests the issuance of a delivery order to Inovo, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. W912DY-22-Q-0013, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for new furniture. The protester asserts that the agency improperly evaluated the awardee's quotation as technically acceptable. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On November 16, 2021, the Army issued the RFQ under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 8.4, to current holders of General Services Administration (GSA) schedule 71 (the furniture schedule) contracts. See Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. The solicitation contemplated the award of a delivery order to a contractor who would supply, deliver, and install new furniture in four buildings at Camp Casey, South Korea. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4(a), RFQ at 19. The delivery order would be issued to the vendor whose quotation was technically acceptable and had the lowest total price. Id.

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