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B-285395 1 (2000-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaldj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa E Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Power Connector, hie. File: B-285395 Date: August 24, 2000 James J. McCullough, Esq., and Catherine E. Pollack, Esq., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, for the protester. Kevin M. Kordziel, Esq., and Geoffrey A. Barrow, Esq., Jenner & Block, for Day Leather Corporation, an intervenor. Michael A. Lewis, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly awarded a small business set-aside contract to a source offering a foreign product is sustained because such set-asides are limited to sources supplying domestically-produced pro ducts. DECISION Power Connector, hie. (PCI) protests the award of a contract to Day Leather Corporation under request for proposals (RFP) No. 1PI-R-1579-00, issued by Federal Prison Industries, Inc., for 1.5 million square feet of leather. PCI argues that Day Leather's offer of imported leather from Brazil is ineligible for award because the solicitation required domestic leather. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND Federal Prison Industries, hic. is a wholly-owned government corporation within the Department of Justice that operates under the trade name UNICOR at various correctional institutions in the federal prison system. RFP at 4. The leather at issue here will be used by UNICOR's facility at the Federal Correctional Institution at Sandstone, Minnesota, to manufacture work gloves for the General Services Administration and the U.S. Forest Service. Agency Report at 2.

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