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B-412543 1 (2016-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SG A O Comptroller General Accountablity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: American Warehouse Systems, LLC File: B-412543 Date: March 1, 2016 Michael J. Murphy, Esq., Morrison Sund PLLC, for the protester. William D. Robinson, Esq., and Hayley Hoffman, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's corrective action in response to an earlier protest is denied where the agency had a reasonable basis to issue a new solicitation rather than awarding the contract to the protester. DECISION American Warehouse Systems, LLC (AWS), of Blaine, Minnesota, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (UNICOR),l in response to AWS's earlier protest of the award of a contract to Russco, of Santa Maria, California, under a request for quotations (RFQ) issued by UNICOR for a multi-level file storage system at the National Records Center in Lee's Summit, Missouri. AWS objects to the agency's decision to issue a new solicitation for the shelving and asserts that it should be awarded the contract under the original RFQ. We deny the protest. In June 2015, UNICOR issued an RFQ for the shelving system and provided vendors, including AWS, a revised RFQ on August 3. Contracting Officer's (CO) Statement at 1. The seven-page revised RFQ, which was unnumbered, included 1 Federal Prison Industries, Inc., which operates under the trade name UNICOR, is a wholly-owned government corporation within the Department of Justice.

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