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B-400912.2 1 (2009-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaxc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Louisiana State Department of Social Services, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services File: B-400912.2 Date: July 1, 2009 Kevin Monk for the protester. Vincent A. Salgado, Esq., National Aeronautics and Space Administration, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Government Accountability Office will not consider protest by state licensing agency (SLA) challenging award of contract for manufacturing support and facilities operation at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) facility, on basis that NASA was required under Randolph-Sheppard Act (RSA) to issue SLA a permit for service of vending machines and/or allow SLA to submit offer in competition to provide cafeteria service at NASA facility; RSA establishes mandatory binding arbitration process at Department of Education to resolve such complaints. DECISION The Louisiana State Department of Social Services, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services (LRS), protests the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) award of a contract to Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., under request for proposals (RFP) No. NNMO838773R, for manufacturing support and facilities operation at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, New Orleans, Louisiana. LRS asserts that NASA failed to comply with the requirements of the Randolph-Sheppard Act (RSA). 20 U.S.C. § 107 (2000). LRS asserts that NASA was required under the RSA to issue LRS a permit for service of the vending machines and/or allow LRS to submit an offer in competition to provide the cafeteria service at the Michoud Assembly Facility. We dismiss the protest. The RSA establishes a priority for blind persons recognized and represented by state licensing agencies (SLA), such as LRS, in the operation of vending facilities,

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