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GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
                                                DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                             The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                             a GAO Protective Order. This version has been
Decision                                      approved for public release.


Matter of:   Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

File:        B-4171 00

Date:       January 25, 2019

Steven Thaler, Esq., Department of Justice, for the protester.
Marc Lamer, Esq., Kostos and Lamer, P.C., for Creighton AB, Inc., the intervenor.
Michael D. McPeak, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency.
Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's consideration of past performance information
occurring after the closing of the solicitation is denied where there is no legal prohibition
on an agency considering relevant, recent past performance information that is known
to the evaluators.
DECISION

Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI)1, of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a
contract to Creighton AB, Inc., of Reidsville, North Carolina, under request for proposals
(RFP) No. SPE1 C1-1 7-R-01 11, which was issued by the Defense Logistics Agency
(DLA), for shirts. FPI challenges the agency's consideration of past performance
information that occurred after the RFP's closing date for proposals.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The RFP, which was issued as a small business set-aside on January 10, 2018, and
subsequently amended twice, sought proposals for the manufacture and delivery of two
types of shirts. The RFP anticipated the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-


1 FPI is a wholly owned government corporation within the Department of Justice,
Bureau of Prisons. Protest at 4.

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