Payne Construction protests the failure of the Forest Service to consider its quotation and the agency's issuance of a purchase order to Ridgley Engineering under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ-17-02-120, for excavator piling site preparation in Tahoe National Forest, California.We sustain the protest...

DIGEST Agency should have considered protester's quotation where it was received prior to agency's commencement of quotation evaluation and other vendors would not have been prejudiced. Which was issued on June 17. The agency determined that one was unrealistically low in price and that the other was from a vendor who had experienced difficulties in completing work on time. At the time the quotati...