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B-299092 1 (2006-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptassp0001 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: Encompass Group, LLC File: B-299092 Date: December 22, 2006 H. K. Tyler, Jr. for the protester. Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Esq., and Phillipa L. Anderson, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined that protester's quotation was unacceptable where the record supports the agency's conclusion that the protester's sample garments failed to comply with multiple solicitation requirements. DECISION Encompass Group, LLC protests the rejection of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA-797-06-RQ-0104, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for reusable operating room scrubs. Encompass contends that any nonconformity of their samples to the solicitation requirements was minor and that it properly indicated in a letter and product literature accompanying the samples its intent to deliver scrubs that conformed to the terms of the RFQ. We deny the protest. As part of its efforts to standardize its procurement of medical items, on September 13, 2006, the VA issued an RFQ to holders of Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for the required garments. The RFQ, which contained a deadline of October 5 for submitting quotations, contemplated establishment of a single national blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with a 5-year performance period. The RFQ informed interested FSS contract holders that a BPA would be established with the offeror whose quotation provides the best overall price to the VA upon determining all offered products Technically Acceptable in accordance with the requirements shown in Attachment A. RFQ at 2. The product requirements for line item 3, the unisex scrub top, included the following:

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