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B-402993,B-402993.2 1 (2010-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadblw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ii .L A G A O Comptroller General f. A Accountabity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: All Points International Distributors, Inc. File: B-402993; B-402993.2 Date: September 3, 2010 Scott A. Schipma, Esq., Winston & Strawn LLP, for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Scott Johnson, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Frank Maguire, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging selection decision on basis that evaluators deviated from solicitation's evaluation scheme in evaluating proposals is denied where record shows that, notwithstanding evaluators' actions, source selection authority's evaluation and award decision were consistent with evaluation scheme. 2. Where solicitation provided for assigning evaluation credit for special features in quotations, assertion that agency improperly declined to assign credit to protester's quotation for failure to provide features that were unique or innovative--terms not included in solicitation--is denied; the terms innovative and unique are reasonably related to the term special, and therefore were encompassed by the evaluation factors set forth in solicitation. DECISION All Points International Distributors, Inc. (API), of Hillsdale, New Jersey, protests the issuance of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Thermo Bond Buildings, LLC, of Elk Point, South Dakota, under Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, request for quotations (RFQ) No. 442608, for dog kennels and supporting equipment. The protester asserts that the Army's evaluation of quotations was flawed. We deny the protest.