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B-406256,B-406256.2 1 (2012-03-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadosn0001 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: DNO Inc. File: B-406256; B-406256.2 Date: March 22, 2012 Anne B. Perry, Esq., Louis D. Victorino, Esq., and Ryan E. Roberts, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Michael Gurwitz, Esq., Department of Agriculture; and Sam Q. Le, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging agency decision not to set aside for small business concerns a contract for a pilot program to compile a list of approved fruit and vegetable vendors for domestic food nutrition assistance programs is sustained where agency's decision was based on insufficient efforts to ascertain, and inaccurate assumptions of, small business capability to perform the contract. 2. In a best value procurement, a solicitation that requests unit pricing from offerors without identifying what each unit reflects or against what quantity the proposed unit prices would be applied to determine an evaluated price for each offeror, does not provide sufficient information to allow a common basis for evaluating proposed prices. DECISION DNO Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 2000000700 issued by the Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture (USDA), for fresh fruits and vegetables. DNO, a small business, contends that the RFP should have been set aside for small business concerns and that the RFP is defective because it fails to provide estimated quantities. We sustain the protest.

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