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B-408000 1 (2013-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpqs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability 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. This redacted version has Decision [bee a for release. Matter of: Great American Forwarders, Inc. File: B-408000 Date: May 2, 2013 Jason S. Dreifuss, Esq., Benjamin J. Lambiotte, Esq., and John A. Knab, Esq., Garvey Schubert Barer, for the protester. CPT George P. Farley, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably excluded a firm from eligibility to receive awards for the shipment of international household goods for a period of time, where the firm failed to meet a minimum performance score established by the agency to improve the quality of household good shipments for military members. DECISION Great American Forwarders, Inc. (GRAF) of Alexandria, Virginia protests its exclusion by the Department of Defense, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), Personal Property Division, from eligibility to receive shipment awards for international household goods. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The SDDC Personal Property Division is responsible for managing the shipment of household goods for Department of Defense military personnel worldwide. In fiscal year 2012 there were more than 800 transportation service providers (TSP) eligible for shipping household goods in three markets: international, domestic, and baggage. As relevant here, one hundred seventy-six of these TSPs were actively competing for shipments in the international market during fiscal year 2012. Agency Report (AR) at 1.

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