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B-408031,B-408055 1 (2013-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpmz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jGA Comptroller General c ity * Integrity * Rellability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. No party requested redactions; we are therefore releasing the decision in its entirety. Decision Matter of: Colonial Press International, Inc. File: B-408031; B-408055 Date: May 6, 2013 Anthony W. Hawks, Esq., Law Office of Anthony W. Hawks, for the protester. Roy E. Potter, Esq. and Melissa A. Pachikara, Esq., Government Printing Office; and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kevin R. Harber, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency wrongly rejected protester's low bids for printing after determining that the company was not responsible is denied where the record, as a whole, shows that the agency's nonresponsibility determination was reasonable. DECISION Colonial Press International, Inc., of Miami, Florida, a small business, protests the award of two contracts by the Government Printing Office (GPO). The first contract was awarded to Fry Communications, Inc., of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 199-S for printing of a Medicare handbook for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The second contract was awarded to Monarch Litho, Inc., of Montebello, California, under IFB No. 379-975 for printing of a healthy eating booklet for the Food and Nutrition Service. Colonial Press argues that in both cases it submitted the lowest bid, but the GPO rejected both bids after unreasonably determining that Colonial Press was not a responsible contractor. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND Competition for Medicare Books (B-408031) The GPO issued IFB No. 199-S on January 24, 2013, seeking bids to print 63 versions of separate-covered, perfect-bound books for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, titled Medicare and You (English versions) and Medicare

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