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B-297053.4 1 (2006-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaslu0001 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: Haworth Inc. File: B-297053.4 Date: June 7, 2006 David W. Burgett, Esq., and Allison D. Pugsley, Esq., Hogan & Hartson LLP, for the protester. Robert J. Conlan, Esq., Sidley Austin LLP, for Herman Miller, Inc., an intervenor. Cecillia Chu, Esq., GSA Public Buildings Service, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency unreasonably rejected protester's quotation for failing to timely include all quoted items under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is denied where agency advised firms that it required all quoted items to be included under FSS contract by a specific date, and protester failed to ensure that all of its quoted items were in fact included under its FSS contract by that date. 2. Protest assertion raised initially in protester's comments is dismissed as untimely where record shows that protester had all necessary information to raise argument at time initial protest was filed. DECISION Haworth, Inc. protests the award of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Herman Miller, Inc. under its Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, pursuant to request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ78965, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to acquire furniture for a new federal office building in San Francisco, California. Haworth asserts that the agency improperly rejected its quotation as unacceptable. We deny the protest. The agency issued the RFQ in April 2005, soliciting quotations to provide the furniture requirements of the tenant organizations that are to occupy the new San Francisco Federal Building. Vendors were required to offer both a stand-alone and a

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