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B-403103 1 (2010-09-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadblx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A GA O Comptroller General ,*Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: HID Global, Inc. File: B-403103 Date: September 15, 2010 Jessica C. Abrahams, Esq., and Erin Sheppard, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Julie Kelley Cannatti, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation improperly includes provisions of the Buy American Act without also including the domestic preference exemption available under the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 is denied where the procuring agency is not one whose procurements are covered by the Trade Agreements Act exemption. DECISION HID Global, Inc., of Irvine, California, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. GP010-0001, issued by the Government Printing Office (GPO) for specialized passport cover material for use by the Department of State. HID asserts that the RFP improperly includes the domestic preferences of the Buy American Act, 41 U.S.C. H§ 10a-10d (2006), without also incorporating the provisions of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979, 19 U.S.C. § 2501 et seg. (2006), that provide an exemption to the Buy American Act preferences. We deny the protest. 1 The protester alleged several other solicitation improprieties which were rendered academic by the agency's issuance of a clarifying amendment. See Letter from Agency to GAO, July 9, 2010.

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