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B-309999.3 1 (2008-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavwj0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Capitol Supply, Inc. File: B-309999.3 Date: January 22, 2008 Holly A. Roth, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery, and Jon W. van Home, Esq., for the protester. Kacie A. Haberly, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and James Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency properly excluded from consideration vendor's quotation for failing to follow the solicitation's mandatory pricing instructions under solicitation of Federal Supply Schedule vendors for issuance of multiple blanket purchase agreements for office supplies. DECISION Capitol Supply, Inc. protests the agency's decision to exclude its quotation from consideration under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 189760, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to all vendors with Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for Special Item Number (SIN) 75 200 Office Products, for the issuance of multiple non-mandatory blanket purchase agreements (BPA) to provide general office supplies, toner and paper. The RFQ was to implement the goals of the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).' It provided for the issuance of BPAs that would establish streamlined and common contracting vehicles that could be leveraged by users throughout the government, better allow socioeconomic goals to be satisfied by participating 1 The FSSI involves the collaborative and structured analysis of federal spending across a number of Federal agencies in order to, among other things, establish vehicles that increase total cost savings, value, and socioeconomic participation, and create a strategic sourcing community of practice.

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