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B-419366 1 (2021-01-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Castro & Company, LLC File: B-419366 Date: January 25, 2021 Wayne Ference for the protester. Jason A. Carey, Esq., J. Hunter Bennett, Esq., Andrew Guy, Esq., and Darby Rourick, Esq., Covington & Burling, LLP, for Kearney & Company, P.C., the intervenor. Justin M. Wakefield, Esq., Kelly Zeng, Esq., and Richard L. Hatfield, Esq., Department of Treasury, for the agency. John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency's establishment of a noncompetitive logical follow-on blanket purchase agreement for compliance support services was reasonable pursuant to the authority of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) section 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C). 2. Where record shows that agency reasonably established a noncompetitive blanket purchase agreement under FAR section 8.405-6(a)(1)(i)(C), protester is not an interested party to further challenge the establishment of that agreement. DECISION Castro & Company, LLC, of Alexandria, Virginia, protests the decision by the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Kearney & Company, P.C., also of Alexandria, Virginia, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 2032H320Q00044, issued for compliance support services. Castro protests the agency's limited-sources justification and establishment of the BPA, made as a logical follow-on to a previously established BPA. We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part. BACKGROUND In 2010, Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and spilled oil into tens of thousands of square miles of ocean. Agency Report (AR), Tab D.1, Acquisition Plan at 1. In response to the oil spill, in 2012 the Gulf RESTORE

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