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B-294868 1 (2005-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqsx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy 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; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Pitney Bowes Inc. File: B-294868; B-294868.2 Date: January 4, 2005 Grace Bateman, Esq., and Amanda B. Weiner, Esq., Seyfarth Shaw, for the protester. Carmody A. Gaba, Esq., and Michael I. Goulding, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, for the agency. Carl L. Vacketta, Esq., Richard P. Rector, Esq., William J. Crowley, Esq., and David E. Fletcher, Esq., Piper Rudnick, for Neopost, Inc., an intervenor. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly canceled delivery order initially issued to protester is denied where protester's response to solicitation did not contain prices for all required line items. 2. Protest that agency improperly permitted successful vendor to submit revised pricing following initial submissions is denied where agency sought and received revised pricing from both protester and successful vendor. 3. Protest that successful vendor failed to acknowledge material amendments to solicitation is denied where successful vendor's submission indicated compliance with all material terms. 4. Protest that successful vendor's equipment does not comply with the solicitation requirements is denied where solicitation did not require detailed technical submissions and agency reasonably relied on general statements of compliance and descriptive literature submitted by successful vendor to conclude that its equipment complies with solicitation requirements. DECISION Pitney Bowes Inc. protests the issuance of a delivery order to Neopost, Inc. by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 48269 for mailing system equipment and

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