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B-413166.2 1 (2016-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadskv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O 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. No party requested redactions; D ecision .we are therefore releasinq the decision in its entirety. Matter of: M Inc., d/b/a Minc Interior Design File: B-413166.2 Date: August 1,2016 Paul M. Dubbeling, Esq., P.M. Dubbeling, PLLC, for the protester. Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Esq., and Olivia Lynch, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for Corporate Spaces, Inc., the intervenor. Ashley Dennis Presley, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably rejected protester's quotation is denied where, although solicitation allowed vendors to submit quotations utilizing contractor teaming arrangements (CTA) among Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) vendors, protester's quotation failed to identify an FSS contract for one supplier for whom protester submitted a CTA, and the firm in fact had no current FSS contract. DECISION M Inc., doing business as Minc Interior Design, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, a small business, protests the issuance of Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) blanket purchase agreements (BPA) to five vendors1, and the corresponding rejection of the protester's quotation as unacceptable, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA1 19-16-Q-0072 for healthcare facility furniture and related services for Veterans Health Administration facilities in particular regions or nationwide. The protester argues that the VA improperly rejected the firm's quotation. 1 The successful lead vendors were Corporate Spaces, Inc., of Pasadena, California; Goforth & Marti, of San Diego, California; JPL Associates LLC, of Sarasota, Florida; King Business Interiors, Inc., of Columbus, Ohio; and Zoom, Inc., of Potomac, Maryland.

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