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B-419111 1 (2020-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecef0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Master Pavement Line Corporation File: B-419111 Date: December 16, 2020 Stuart Weinstein-Bacal, Esq., Weinstein-Bacal, Miller & Vega, P.S.C., for the protester. Milton Hsieh, Esq., Department of Transportation, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the rejection of protester's bid as nonresponsive for failing to have an active System for Award Management (SAM) registration at the time of bid submission is sustained. Compliance with the SAM registration requirements are matters of bidder responsibility, not bid responsiveness. The agency should have provided the protester with the opportunity to correct the SAM registration, which the protester, in fact, did prior to award. DECISION Master Pavement Line Corporation, a disadvantaged small business located in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, protests the rejection of its bid as nonresponsive under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 693C73-20-B-000024, issued by the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), for repair services. The protester argues that the agency improperly rejected its bid as nonresponsive on the basis that it did not have an active System for Award Management (SAM) registration at the time of bid submission. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was issued on July 10, 2020, as a small business set-aside, seeking a contractor to repair signs, guardrails, and other safety repairs as described in PR-52

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