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B-409315,B-409315.2 1 (2014-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqdp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: Comptroller General of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Sbeen approved forpublic release. Western Alternative Corrections, Inc. B-409315; B-409315.2 March 10, 2014 Cynthia Malyszek, Esq., Malyszek & Malyszek, for the protester. William D. Robinson, Esq., Pawandeep K. Chatha, Esq., and Seth M. Bogin, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. James Lynn Werner, Esq., and Lawrence M. Hershon, Esq., Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, for Alston Wilkes Society, the intervenor. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee does not meet solicitation's definitive responsibility criterion for residential reentry center zoning approval is denied where record shows contracting officer reasonably determined awardee satisfied this criterion. DECISION Western Alternative Corrections, Inc. (WAC), of Hastings, Nebraska, protests the award of a contract to Alston Wilkes Society (AWS), of Columbia, South Carolina, by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-200-1184-SE for residential reentry center (RRC) services for federal offenders in North Charleston, South Carolina. WAC asserts that the agency's determination that AWS's proposal complied with a solicitation requirement for zoning approval was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, which the agency issued on September 26, 2012, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity fixed-price requirements contract

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