FSS Award Rejected Because Services Were Not Included in Awardee’s FSS
Symplicity Corp. protested the award of a task order to enhance an agency’s website to TMP under its Federal Supply Schedule for “Marketing, Media and Public Information Services” arguing that two labor categories proposed by TMP were not on its schedule. The Comp. General affirmed the labor categories were not included in the schedule and concluded that products and services could not be purchased using FSS simplified procedures and instead, non-FSS products and services must be purchased using traditional competitive procedures. Even though the schedule had been pre-approved by the ordering government agency, the GAO ruled the award was improper because an agency cannot lawfully use the FSS ordering process to order services not on the vendor’s schedule contract (Symplicity Corp. Comp. Gen. Dec. B-291902).
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