to ensure that products offered meet the descriptions and environmental attributes, are TAA and ETS requirement compliant, and are on the Contractor’s MAS 51V contract.” Id. In this regard, the RFQ provided that GSA would perform “random sample verification. Among the Go/No Go factors, vendors were to demonstrate that they were AbilityOne authorized resellers and that they had the ability to provide 100 percent of the market basket items. Quotations meeting all of the administrative compliance requirements were then to be evaluated on a Go/No Go basis under a number of technical factors. As part of the administrative compliance requirements review, the technical evaluation team was to verify that, among other things, vendors had provided assurances that the offered items were TAA compliant. The RFQ provided that quotations would be evaluated on a lowest-priced, technically acceptable basis, with the evaluation process consisting of an administrative compliance requirements review, a technical review, and a price evaluation. Also of relevance to Kipper’s protest, the RFQ required that the vendor be an AbilityOne distributor prior to submission of its quotation, and that items furnished comply with the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA). Of relevance to this protest, the solicitation required that all items included in a vendor’s quotation be available on the vendor’s MAS 51 V contract prior to the RFQ’s closing date.
The ordering period under the BPAs was to be one year, with four 1-year option periods. For the tools category, GSA intended to establish 6 BPAs, 4 of which were to be set aside for small businesses. While the solicitation contemplated the establishment of BPAs for three categories of supplies (hardware tools and tool cabinets and paints, adhesives, and sealants), Kipper competed for-and thus its protest pertains to-the tools category only. The solicitation estimated that the total value of purchases to be made under the BPAs was more than $1.8 billion ($236 million annually). The RFQ, which was issued on Octoto GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) 51 V contract holders, sought to establish multiple BPAs for maintenance, repair, and office (MRO) supplies as part of GSA’s Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI). Kipper argues that the quotations of the successful vendors should have been found unacceptable. 819581, for maintenance, repair, and office supplies. Kipper Tool Company, of Gainesville, Georgia, protests the failure of the General Services Administration (GSA) to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with it under request for quotations (RFQ) No.
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