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B-414944 1 (2017-10-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadupy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Olympus America, Inc. File: B-414944 Date: October 19, 2017 Gary J. Campbell, Esq., Michael A. Hordell, Esq., Kelley P. Doran, Esq., and Kristopher Berr, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the protester. Michael F. Mason, Esq., Stacy M. Hadeka, Esq., William T. Kirkwood, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Hogan Lovells US LLP, for GE Inspecton Technologies, LP, an i nte rve nor. Colonel C. Taylor Smith, Colby L. Sullins, Esq., Erika Whelan Retta, Esq., Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., and Charles R. Epperson, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that awardee will not comply with the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act (TAA) is dismissed where solicitation did not include provisions relating to compliance with the TAA, neither offeror submitted a TAA certificate, and the agency did not evaluate proposals for compliance with the TAA, thus eliminating the possibility of any prejudice to the protester. DECISION Olympus America, Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, protests the award of a contract to GE Inspection Technologies, LP, of Skaneateles, New York, under request for proposals No. FA8533-17-R-5387, issued by the Department of the Air Force for a quantity of borescopes. Olympus argues that the agency should have rejected the GE proposal for failing to comply with the requirements of the Trade Agreements Act. We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP contemplates the award of a fixed-price requirements contract on the basis of low price for a base year and four 1-year options to purchase three different models of

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