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B-413363 1 (2016-10-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsqe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Areaka Trading & Logistics Company File: B-413363 Date: October 13, 2016 David T. Ralston Jr., Esq., Frank Murray, Esq., Anna S. Ross, Esq., and Micah Zomer, Esq., Foley & Lardner LLP, for the protester. Matthew Vasquez, Esq., Department of Defense, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency's solicitation unreasonably failed to include definitive responsibility criterion requiring offerors show specific authorization to sell jet fuel is denied where agency provides reasonable basis to require compliance during contract performance and the record provides no basis to deviate from the general principle that this Office does not permit a protester to use the protest process to advocate for more restrictive government requirements. DECISION Areaka Trading & Logistics Company, of Amman, Jordan, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. SP0600-16-R-0214, issued by the Department of Defense, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for the delivery of various types of fuel, including jet propulsion 8 (JP8) aviation fuel, to locations in Jordan and the Arab Emirates. The protester asserts that the RFP terms are defective because the solicitation does not require an offeror to demonstrate, as a precondition of award, that the offeror is authorized by the Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF) to sell JP8 fuel in Jordan. We deny the protest. On June 30, 2015, DLA issued the solicitation to contractors with current Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) issued under Solicitation No. SP06-15-R-0210. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, Combined Synopsis/Solicitation. The solicitation contemplates the award of one or more requirements-type, fixed-price with economic price adjustment contracts to the responsible offeror or offerors offering

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