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B-416255 1 (2018-07-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduwy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... 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: MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. File: B-416255 Date: July 12, 2018 Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Tyler J. Mullen, Esq., and Alissa J. K. Schrider, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. DIGEST Agency reasonably rejected protester's quotation for failing to submit small business summary subcontracting report with its quotation where solicitation required vendors to submit the report and warned that failure to do so would result in rejection of the quotation. DECISION MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc. (MSC), of Melville, New York, challenges the rejection of the quotation it submitted in response to request for quotations (RFQ) No. QSRA-RFQ-1 8001, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide and manage industrial product inventory at Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex. MSC asserts that the agency unreasonably rejected its quotation for failing to provide a summary subcontracting report (SSR) with its small business subcontracting participation plan. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA issued the solicitation pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 8.405-3, to establish a BPA to provide industrial products and related in-store services for a tool room and issue point at Warner Robins Air Force Base. The solicitation was limited to vendors that are listed on GSA's Federal Supply Schedule 51V, Hardware Superstore,

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