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B-417265 1 (2019-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzgb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA.O U.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 redacted version has Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc. File: B-417265 Date: May 3, 2019 John C. Dulske, Esq., and Bryan Kost, Esq., Dykema Gossett PLLC, for the protester. Garry L. Brewer, Esq., Department of the Army, and Timi Nickerson Kenealy, Esq., and Kasia Dourney, Esq., U.S. AbilityOne Commission, for the agencies. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that award of a contract for the purchase and installation of washing machines and dryers violated the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act is denied where the protester has not shown that it is the mandatory source for the installation of the purchased washers and dryers, and therefore has not met its burden to show that the agency violated applicable statutes and regulations. DECISION Training, Rehabilitation & Development Institute, Inc. (TRDI) of San Antonio, Texas, protests the decision of the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers (Corps), to award a contract to Pierce Commercial Laundry Distributors LLC (Pierce) for the purchase and installation of clothes washing machines and dryers at Fort Hood, Texas. TRDI alleges that the award of the contract violated the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act and its implementation under the AbilityOne program.' TRDI contends that pursuant to the JWOD Act and its implementing regulations, TRDI is the mandatory 1 The AbilityOne program seeks to provide employment opportunities to people who are blind or have significant disabilities. The program is administered by the AbilityOne Commission, the operating name for the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, which was established pursuant to the JWOD Act. After receiving the agency report responding to the protest, GAO requested input on the protest from the AbilityOne Commission; the protester and agency then filed submissions addressing the Commission's input.

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