United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2000-08-23 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:B-285366 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285366 P0b002ee18fd4ae15 f:285366 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-285366 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-285366 B-285366 Comptroller General Decision

1. Where an agency requests competition among Federal Supply Schedule vendors and decides to shift to the vendors the burden of selecting items on which to quote, the vendors must be given sufficient detail to allow them to compete intelligently and fairly.<p/>2. Agency reasonably declined to establish blanket purchase agreement for self-contained breathing apparatuses with a Federal Supply Schedule vendor whose offered products either did not meet the agency's stowage size requirements or were otherwise unacceptable. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285366/html/GAOREPORTS-B-285366.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-285366/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-285366.pdf GAO/B-285366 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-285366 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-285366; Draeger Safety, Inc., B-285366; B-285366.2, August 23, 2000; Title 41 Section 253(a)(1) Title 41 Section 259(b)(3) 41 U.S.C. 253(a)(1) 41 U.S.C. 259(b)(3)