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Commercial Item Acquisition Archive
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Security Management and Integration, B-407742, January 30, 2013
Posted on February 6, 2013 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Security Management and Integration, Inc. (SMI), based on the rejection of its proposal under a request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of... -
Herman Miller, Inc., B-407028, October 19, 2012
Posted on November 7, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: Herman Miller, Inc. Agency: Department of the Air Force; General Services Administration Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: A solicitation with a two-tiered acquisition approach, under which manufacturers would receive contracts that include not-to-exceed prices for furniture systems and dealers would... -
PN&A, Inc., B-406368, April 23, 2012
Posted on May 2, 2012 | No CommentsLink: GAO Decision Protestor: PN&A, Inc. Agency: Department of Energy Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency misevaluated protester’s quotation is denied where the record reasonably supports evaluation that the protester’s quotation was unacceptable in several respects and the protester has provided no... -
U.S. Foodservice, Inc.; Labatt Food Services, LP, B-404786; B-404786.2; B-404786.3; B-404786.4, May 13, 2011
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Terms of a Solicitation; Commercial Item Acquisition —————————————————————————————————————————– General Counsel P.C. Highlight: FAR § 12.302(c) bars the tailoring of solicitations for commercial items in a manner inconsistent with customary commercial practice unless a waiver is... -
Vetcorp, Inc., B-402519, May 24, 2010
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Army Corps of Engineers Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Commercial Product Acquisition; HUBZone Price Preference General Counsel P.C. Highlight: HUBZone price preferences cannot be used against other small businesses. —————————————————————————————————————————– The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) issued a solicitation for purchase... -
GIBBCO, LLC, B-401890, December 14, 2009
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Commercial items General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Challenges over whether a product is considered to be a commercial item is largely within the discretion of the contracting agency. These determinations are given great deference... -
Voith Hydro, Inc., B-401244.2, B-401771, November 13, 2009
Posted on December 22, 2009 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agencies: Department of the Interior Disposition: Protests denied. —————————————————————————————————————————– Voith Hydro, Inc. protested the terms of two Department of the Interior Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for generator and excitation systems for the Folsom and the Nimbus power plants in California. Voith claimed... -
Electronic Vision Access Solutions, B-401473, August 25, 2009
Posted on August 25, 2009 | No CommentsLink: GAO Opinion Agency: Internal Revenue Service Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: 1. Agency reasonably found awardee’s proposed system to be commercially available where it was of a type customarily used by, and had been sold to, the general public, in accordance with the...
