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B-418522.2,B-418522.3,B-418522.4,B-418522.5 Apr 02, 2021 1 (2021-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaolhm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Trademasters Service, Inc. File: B-418522.2; B-418522.3; B-418522.4; B-418522.5 Date: April 2, 2021 Katherine B. Burrows, Esq., Timothy F. Valley, Esq., Anna R. Wright, Esq., and Anna G. Sullivan, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester. Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Andrew C. Crawford, Esq., Brown Rudnick LLP, for EMCOR Government Services, Inc., the intervenor. Alexis N. Webster, Esq., and Robert M. Notigan, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the awardee's quotation could not possibly include all of the items required under the solicitation given its low price is dismissed because, in essence, the protester contends that the agency should have performed a price realism evaluation. The protester's contention fails to state a valid basis of protest, however, because the solicitation neither provided for nor permitted a price realism evaluation. 2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in unequal discussions in a procurement conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 is denied because the agency essentially established a competitive range and conducted discussions with only those vendors in the competitive range. Further, the agency reasonably excluded the protester's quotation from the competitive range after concluding that it did not have a realistic prospect of award due to its price. DECISION Trademasters Service, Inc., of Lorton, Virginia, protests the establishment of a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with EMCOR Government Services, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, under Request for Quotations (RFQ) No. 47PD0120Q0003, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for facilities maintenance and management. Trademasters challenges numerous aspects of the agency's evaluation of quotations and source selection decision. We dismiss the protest in part and deny the protest in part.

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