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B-412821 1 (2016-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadshx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Tempus Nova, Inc. File: B-412821 Date: June 14, 2016 Michael D. McGill, Esq., Thomas L. McGovern, III, Esq., and Danielle M. Bertie, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for the protester. Scott A. Freling, Esq., and John W. Sorrenti, Esq., Covington & Burling LLP, for Softchoice Corporation, an intervenor. Jonathan D. Tepper, Esq., and Holly Styles, Esq., Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that agency issued an improper, out-of-scope, sole-source delivery order against a previously-awarded Federal Supply Schedule blanket purchase agreement is sustained where record shows that the delivery order contemplates providing products that were not included in the underlying blanket purchase agreement. DECISION Tempus Nova, Inc. (TN), of Denver, Colorado, protests the issuance of a delivery order to Softchoice Corporation, of Chicago, Illinois, under blanket purchase agreement (BPA) No. TIRNO-13-Z-00009, which previously was issued to Softchoice by the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under that firm's Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract.' TN maintains that the delivery order is beyond the scope of Softchoice's underlying BPA and was improperly issued on a sole-source basis. We sustain the protest. 1 TN is an authorized reseller of Google products and services. Softchoice is an authorized reseller of Microsoft products and services.

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