Micro-Purchase Threshold

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: FSS contract; Contract line item; Micro-purchase threshold General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Offeror cannot use a micro-purchase line item in a FSS buy where the actual cost of the line item is incorporated elsewhere and the amount appears to exceed the micro-purchase threshold. —————————————————————————————————————————– The

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Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of State Disposition:  Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Highlight: Where solicitation limited competition to vendors holding Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for required items, and successful vendor’s FSS contract did not include all required items, issuance of purchase order was improper; while non-FSS micro-purchase ($3,000) items properly may be purchased under

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