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B-409585,B-409585.4,B-409585.9 1 (2014-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqjz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. File: B-409585; B-409585.4; B-409585.9 Date: June 12, 2014 Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Gregory Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Anne B. Perry, Esq., Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., David S. Gallacher, Esq., Townsend L. Bourne, Esq., and Christine R. Couvillon, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, and Robert A. Van Kirk, Esq., Edward C. Reddington, Esq., and Ryan H. Creighton, Esq., Williams & Connolly LLP, for W.W. Grainger, Inc.; Holly A. Roth, Esq., and Howard H. Yuan, Esq., Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, for Capitol Supply, Inc.; and William E. Hughes III, Esq., and Emily A. Constantine, Esq., Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek SC, for SupplyCore Inc., intervenors. Stephen T. O'Neal, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging unbalanced pricing is denied where record fails to establish that any of awardees' Federal Supply Schedule prices were overstated. 2. Objection to price evaluation scheme that was clearly set forth in the solicitation is untimely where not raised before closing date for receipt of quotations. 3. Allegations that agency waived compliance with various solicitation requirements for awardees is denied where record establishes that protester suffered no prejudice as a result of alleged waivers. DECISION MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (MSC), of Melville, New York, protests the failure of the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with it under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 819581, for maintenance, repair, and office supplies. MSC argues that the prices of some of the successful vendors should have been rejected as unbalanced and that the

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