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B-417856.2 1 (2019-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeazj0001 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: PREA Auditors of America, LLC File: B-417856.2 Date: November 26, 2019 Alan Grayson, Esq., for the protester. William Robinson, Esq., and Monica Barron, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of an agency's decision to take corrective action is denied where the agency reasonably concluded that corrective action was necessary to address flaws in the solicitation. DECISION PREA Auditors of America, LLC (PREA), a small business of Cypress, Texas, protests the corrective action being taken by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), under request for proposals (RFP) No. 15BNAS19RCA0126, for audits of federal correctional institutions. PREA contends that the corrective action was unnecessary and prejudicial to PREA. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On May 24, 2019, BOP issued a combined synopsis/solicitation for the award of a fixed- price, requirements contract for certification of compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 standards at federal correctional institutions. Agency Report (AR) Tab 3, RFP at 1.1 The RFP establishes that the procurement will be conducted using both part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (contracting by negotiation) and FAR part 12 (acquisition of commercial items/services) procedures. Id. 1 Our Office assigned consecutive numbers to the pages of this document.

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