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B-408656 1 (2013-11-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpvv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: RAO Contract Sales, Inc. File: B-408656 Date: November 6, 2013 Seth Bergman for the protester. Matthew V. Edwards, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of an agency's technical evaluation and source selection decision is denied where the agency reasonably evaluated the protester's quotation as technically unacceptable for failing to meet requirements of the solicitation. DECISION RAO Contract Sales, Inc., of Wyckoff, New Jersey, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Artmoxm Inc., d/b/a Designers Art, of Palos Verdes, California, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ790169, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for framed wall art. We deny the protest. The RFQ was issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 and was set-aside for small business Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors. RFQ at 1; amend. 1, at 8. The solicitation contemplated the purchase of 90 framed photographs on a lowest-priced, technically-acceptable basis; the framed photographs were to be displayed in corridors and medical wards on the upper floors of a VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Las Vegas, Nevada. RFQ amend. 1, at 12; amend. 2, Artwork Spreadsheet. Artmoxm is the incumbent, having supplied the artwork currently displayed on the first floor of the VAMC. Agency Report (AR) at 4-5. Of significance here, the RFQ required that vendors' frames be substantially similar and conform to those on the VAMC's first floor. RFQ amend. 1, at 5. The RFQ specified three frame types and provided required dimensions, colors, materials,

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