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B-411591 1 (2015-08-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrko0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: K.C. Electrical Construction File: B-411591 Date: August 31, 2015 Daniel Klaus for the protester. Pawandeep K. Chatha, Esq., and William D. Robinson, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that a bid was improperly rejected based on a failure to furnish documentation establishing a security interest by an individual surety is denied where the agency reasonably found the surety unacceptable and properly rejected the bid. DECISION K.C. Electrical Construction (K.C. Electrical), of Midlothian, Illinois, protests the rejection of its apparent low bid as nonresponsive for lack of a valid bid bond under invitation for bids (IFB) No. IFBP04011500002, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for the replacement of secondary electrical panels. K.C. Electrical contends that its bid complied with the requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) § 28.203. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The IFB was issued on March 2, 2015 as a small-business set-aside and contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract. IFB at 1-2, 29.1 The IFB required 1 The BOP used a Bates numbering system for individual tabs in preparing the agency report; our citations are to those numbers.

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