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B-400345 1 (2008-09-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General = = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of. Frontier Transportation, Inc. File: B-400345 Date: September 9, 2008 Romona Doty, Frontier Transportation, Inc., for the protester. Heather M. Self, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's quotation after unreasonably concluding that its price was too high is denied where the record shows that protester's price was significantly higher than the government estimate and significantly higher than the prices received from other small businesses during the competition. DECISION Frontier Transportation, Inc. protests the rejection of its quotation under request for quotations (RFQ) No. AG-0343-S-08-9004, issued by the Department of Agriculture for mobile refrigerated trailer units for use on incident assignments in the Northern Rockies geographic area. Frontier argues that the agency improperly rejected its quotation on the basis of unreasonable price. We deny the protest. This solicitation was posted on the federal business opportunities (FedBizOpps) internet website on February 29, 2008. The RFQ was issued as a small business set- aside, simplified commercial acquisition. The RFP provided that the quotations would be used to establish emergency equipment rental agreements, which the agency terms a form of blanket purchase agreement (BPA), against which orders could be placed for mobile refrigerated trailer units. RFQ B. The RFQ contemplated the award of BPAs to all vendors submitting reasonably priced, technically acceptable quotations. RFQ E.2.

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