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B-411678 1 (2015-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrmc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Phoenix Environmental Design, Inc. File: B-411678 Date: September 28, 2015 C. Chad Gill for the protester. Elyse M. Griffiths, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency's decision to conduct limited competition for urgently needed landscaping supplies was unobjectionable where agency reasonably limited competition to four vendors that had recently submitted quotations for the items under a cancelled solicitation. DECISION Phoenix Environmental Design, Inc., of Newman Lake, Washington, protests the issuance of a purchase order (No. VA-786-15-P-0884) to Green Wave Supply and Logistics, Inc., of Buena Park, California, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Cemetery Administration, for landscaping supplies needed for the treatment of deteriorating turf at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida. Phoenix alleges that the purchase order resulted from an improper sole-source award to Green Wave. We deny the protest. On April 10, 2015, the agency solicited quotations for the delivery of various quantities of fertilizer, pesticides, fungicides, and pre-emergents for use at the Florida National Cemetery. The solicitation provided for a delivery schedule with four installments extending over the summer months through September 30. Phoenix protested the terms of this solicitation, however, which had been set aside for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses, arguing that it failed to provide sufficient information to permit quotations of commercially available items.

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