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B-418481.3,B-418481.4 1 (2020-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebjj0001 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Mitchco International, Inc. File: B-418481.3; B-418481.4 Date: June 9, 2020 Alan Grayson, Esq., for the protester. Ronald Herrmann, Esq., Gregory O'Malley, Esq., and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Kasia Dourney, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that that an agency improperly entered into discussions solely with the awardee, a state licensing agency (SLA), in a procurement conducted pursuant to the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. § 107 et seq., is dismissed as untimely where this possibility was apparent from the solicitation, and the protester failed to challenge the terms of the solicitation before award. 2. Protest that the awardee violated the procurement integrity provisions of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2107, known as the Procurement Integrity Act, is dismissed as legally and factually insufficient where the protester's allegations, even if unrebutted, fail to establish a violation of law by the agency. DECISION Mitchco International, Inc. (Mitchco) of Saint Matthews, Kentucky, protests the award of a contract to the Kentucky Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (KOVR), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124J-1 9-R-001 8, issued by the Department of the Army for full food services for the dining facilities at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The protester alleges that the agency conducted unequal discussions and evaluated the awardee's technical and price proposals in a manner that was flawed. Mitchco also challenges the awardee's status as a state licensing agency (SLA), and claims it violated the Procurement Integrity Act. We dismiss the protest.

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