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B-417502.2 1 (2019-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Far North Forestry, LLC File: B-417502.2 Date: September 25, 2019 Daniel Tumenas, Far North Forestry LLC, for the protester. Antonio Robinson, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Christopher Alwood, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation is dismissed as untimely where the alleged solicitation improprieties were apparent from the solicitation but were not protested prior to the closing time for submitting quotations. 2. Protest challenging selection of lower-rated, lower-priced quotation is denied where the source selection authority considered the differences between the two vendors' quotations but determined that the superiority of the higher-rated, higher-priced quotation was not worth paying the associated price premium. DECISION Far North Forestry, LLC (Far North), a small business of Girdwood, Alaska, protests the award of a contract to PEAK Engineering LLC, a small business of Sitka, Alaska, under request for quotations (RFQ)l No. 12012018Q0011, issued by the Department of Agriculture, United States Forest Service (Forest Service), for timber cruise data 1 The record is unclear as to whether the solicitation is in fact a request for quotations or proposals. See Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFQ at 1 (agency checked box in block 14 noting the method of solicitation was RFP and separately instructed vendors to submit proposals despite numbering the solicitation as an RFQ); see also AR, Tab 9, New Award Decision at 1 (The Contracting Officer conducted a review of all original quotes . . . .). For the purpose of clarity, this decision will refer to the solicitation as an RFQ and the vendor submissions as quotations.

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