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B-417289 1 (2019-04-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzdy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: AeroSage, LLC File: B-417289 Date: April 24, 2019 David M. Snyder, AeroSage LLC, for the protester. Matthew Vasquez, Esq., and May Sena, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of an agency's requirement for vendor to provide written acceptance of government offer made pursuant to a request for quotations in less than three hours is denied where the amount of time provided was not unreasonable under the circumstances of the procurement, including that the agency required performance on the next day. 2. Protest of an agency's failure to implement the statutorily required stay of performance is dismissed as it is not a matter for consideration by GAO. DECISION AeroSage LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Tampa, Florida, protests the award of a purchase order to Infinite Energy Corp., a woman-owned small disadvantaged business of New York, New York, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPE605-19-Q-0253, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for diesel fuel. The protester argues the agency unreasonably withdrew the government's offer and moved to the next lowest-priced technically acceptable vendor for award after providing AeroSage less than three hours to provide written acceptance of the offer. The protester also alleges the agency violated the Competition in Contracting Act by failing to stay contract performance.' 1 AeroSage also protests the alleged cancellation of RFQ No. SPE605-19-Q-0253 and subsequent resolicitation of the same requirement under RFQ No. SPE605-19-Q-0256. AeroSage's challenge to the issuance and terms of RFQ No. SPE605-19-Q-0256 is (continued...)