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B-406021 1 (2012-01-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadood0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I QA Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. L - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i Decision Matter of: Standard Communications, Inc. File: B-406021 Date: January 24, 2012 Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Steven J. Koprince, Esq., and Megan C. Connor, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Theodore P. Watson, Esq., and Idris S. Keith, Esq., Watson & Associates, LLC, for Advanced Systems, Inc., an intervenor. Jaron E. Chriss, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency engaged in discussions with the awardee, but not the protester, is sustained where record shows that awardee was permitted to make material changes to its quote that had the effect of rendering its original, technically unacceptable quote acceptable, but the agency did not afford protester an opportunity to revise its quote. DECISION Standard Communications, Inc. (SCI), of Hume, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task order to Advanced Systems, Inc. (ASI), of Fairfax, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 4QTG361 OTR1 0, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire, on behalf of the Veterans Administration (VA), a complete digital/analog voice telephone system and related services for the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina. SCI contends that the agency engaged in discussions with ASI but not with it, and also that the agency misevaluated the ASI quotation. We sustain the protest.

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