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B-410517 1 (2014-12-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Data Integrators, Inc. File: B-410517 Date: December 29, 2014 Robert Denton, Data Integrators, Inc., for the protester. Roy E. Potter, Esq., Government Printing Office, 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 Protest that agency improperly rejected protester's low bid for printing after finding that the company was not responsible is denied where the record, as a whole, shows that the agency reasonably found the protester did not demonstrate that it could meet the solicitation's security requirements. DECISION Data Integrators, Inc., of Fredericksburg, Virginia, protests the award of a contract under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 102-S by the Government Printing Office (GPO) to Harland Clarke d/b/a Scantron Survey Services. Data Integrators argues that it submitted the lowest bid, but that the GPO rejected its bid after unreasonably determining that Data Integrators was not a responsible contractor. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The GPO issued IFB No. 102-S on June 24, 2014, seeking bids to print and mail Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Annual Refiling Survey (ARS) forms packages. The contractor will also be required to receive and process the responses, including scanning responses' barcodes; creation and transfer of data response files from scanning; and packaging and shipping of returned responses. IFB at 9. The IFB contemplated the award of a single, fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, with economic price adjustments, with a 1-year base period and up to four 1-year options. Id. at 1.

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