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B-422841.3 Dec 11, 2024 1 (2024-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaorfp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Mission Analytics, LLC File: B-422841.3 Date: December 11, 2024 Michael F. Winters, for the protester. Jonathan S. Baker, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Michelle Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging the agency issued a purchase order while an agency-level protest was pending is dismissed as legally insufficient where there was no agency-level protest pending at the time of award, and because failing to stay award is a procedural defect that does not result in competitive prejudice. DECISION Mission Analytics, LLC, a small business of Falls Church, Virginia, protests the issuance of a purchase order to Visbox, Inc., a small business of Saint Joseph, Illinois, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1333ND24QNB770135, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a direct view light-emitting diodes display system. The protester contends that the agency violated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 33.103(f) by issuing the purchase order while the protester's agency-level protest was pending. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND NIST issued the RFQ as a small business set-aside on May 7, 2024, to procure an equipment upgrade for NIST's High Performance Computing and Visualization Group. Req. for Dismissal at 2; Req. for Dismissal, attach. 1, Contracting Officer Decl. T 1. The

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