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B-295780 1 (2005-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AVL Books.Corn, Inc. File: B-295780 Date: March 28, 2005 Anesta Lenhardt for the protester. Georgia Vlahos, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's oral amendment to solicitation is denied where oral notice adequately advised firms of agency's added requirement. DECISION AVL Books.Coin, Inc. protests the evaluation of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. N00128-05-Q-0032, issued by the Naval Supply Systems Command for medical journal subscriptions. AVL Books asserts that online claims processing capability was improperly used as an evaluation criterion because AVL Books had not received proper notice that online claims processing was being added as a requirement to the RFQ. We deny the protest. On December 3, 2004, a presolicitation notice synopsizing this procurement appeared on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The RFQ requested quotations for annual subscriptions, starting January 1, 2005, for over 200 medical journals for the Naval Hospital's medical library. The RFQ did not list online claims processing capabilities as a requirement. The response date was December 14. The contracting officer received six quotations by the response date, including one from AVL Books. She rejected two of the quotations as nonresponsive; AVL Books' and three others were considered responsive. According to the agency, the contracting officer contacted the medical librarian to inform her of the four responsive quotations, and the librarian asked the contracting officer whether those four respondents offered an online claims and tracking

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