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B-420831 Sep 16, 2022 1 (2022-09-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaonqd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: The Regal Press, Inc. File: B-420831 Date: September 16, 2022 Anthony W. Hawks, Esq., Anthony W. Hawks Law Office, for the protester. James Goodman, III, Esq., Government Publishing Office, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's cancellation of invitation for bids after bid opening was unobjectionable where the agency found the protester's bid price to be unreasonable based on a comparison of adjusted historical pricing. DECISION The Regal Press, Inc., of Norwood, Massachusetts, protests the cancellation of invitation for bids (IFB) No. Program-118-S, issued by the Government Publishing Office (GPO) for the production of Army certificates and dies. Regal alleges the agency's decision to cancel the IFB was improper because it was based on a flawed evaluation of prices, leading the agency to erroneously find the protester's price to be unreasonably high. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The IFB, issued on May 20, 2022, anticipated a single award of a contract for one base year and two 1-year option periods. See Agency Report (AR), Exh. A, IFB at 1; AR, Exh. G, Resolicitation Notice. The procurement was for the manufacturing of dies and the production of printed, stamped, or embossed certificates, requisitioned by the Department of the Army. IFB at 7. Award would be made to the lowest responsive bid. Id. at 17. The deadline for submission of bids was May 27, 2022. IFB at 1. GPO received two timely and responsive bids, including one from the protester. Regal's price at bid

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