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B-309911 1 (2007-11-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptauiu0001 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: FitNet Purchasing Alliance File: B-309911 Date: November 2, 2007 Raul Espinosa for the protester. Capt. Charles D. Halverson, Department of the Army; Thedlus L. Thompson, Esq., General Services Administration; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging an agency's decision not to set aside for small businesses an order under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program valued at approximately $12,000 is dismissed where the protester does not hold an FSS contract, and therefore is not an interested party to pursue this matter. DECISION FitNet Purchasing Alliance, a small business, protests the terms of a reverse auction under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SWCSKQ-7177-N035 by the Department of the Army for 50 wardrobe lockers to be delivered to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. FitNet argues that this requirement must be set aside for small businesses. We dismiss the protest. On July 23, 2007, the Fort Bragg Directorate of Contracting used the FedBid website to commence an electronic reverse auction for 50 wardrobe lockers at a target price of $12,500.' This posting was designated as Buy No. 43672_01. The posting listed a 1 FedBid, Inc. is a commercial online procurement services provider that runs a website at FedBid.com, which among other things, hosts reverse auctions.

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