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B-403632 1 (2010-10-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbnd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL .L A GA O Comptroller General .,u in Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Colonial Press International, Inc. File: B-403632 Date: October 18, 2010 Anthony W. Hawks, Esq., for the protester. Roy E. Potter, Esq., and Julie Kelley Cannatti, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. Cherie J. Owen, Esq., and Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency may properly exclude a defaulted contractor from a reprocurement for the remaining work in the defaulted contract, even where the contractor is in the process of challenging the default. DECISION Colonial Press International, Inc., of Miami, Florida, protests the award of a contract to Vision Print Communications, of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, under solicitation No. 679-216 by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) for the production of 75,000 brochures requisitioned by the Department of Agriculture, and titled North Umpqua Trail Brochure. Colonial Press contends that the agency improperly determined that the protester was nonresponsible for purposes of this procurement. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The protester here was the previous awardee for the requirement, awarded on March 15, 2010. The subject reprocurement began after the protester's contract was terminated for default on August 11, 2010. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2, Notice of Termination, at 1. The agency contends that the original contract was terminated when the protester refused to reprint the brochure, despite numerous quality issues.

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