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B-418869 1 (2020-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebod0001 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: Prudential Protective Services, LLC File: B-418869 Date: August 13, 2020 Douglas L. Patin, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., and Lisa A. Markman, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester. Timothy F. Valley, Esq., Anna R. Wright, Esq., Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., and Lauren R. Brier, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for North American Security, Inc., the intervenor. Wilmary Bernal-Jimenez, Esq., and Edward Weber, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Lillian I. Ofili, Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's issuance of a noncompetitive task order under a Federal Supply Schedule contract is dismissed as untimely where the protest was filed more than 10 days after the notice that formed the basis of its protest was posted to the official governmentwide point of entry. DECISION Prudential Protective Services, LLC (PPS), of Chicago, Illinois, protests the issuance of a short-term, sole-source task order to North American Security, Inc. (NAS), of Carson, California, issued by the Department of Commerce, United States Census Bureau, for protective security officer services at the National Processing Center (NPC) located in Jeffersonville, Indiana. PPS argues that the Census Bureau's decision to issue the task order to NAS on a sole-source basis was unreasonable. We dismiss the protest as untimely. BACKGROUND On April 1, 2020, PPS protested with our Office the issuance of a task order to NAS under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1333LC19Q00000015, issued by the Census Bureau for the management, supervision, manpower, equipment and supplies necessary to provide protective security officer services for the Census Bureau's

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