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B-286797.3 1 (2001-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Bluff Springs Paper Company, Ltd./R.D. Thompson Paper Products Company, Inc. Joint Venture File: B-286797.3 Date: August 13, 2001 Anthony W. Hawks, Esq., for the protester. Scott P. Pavelle, Esq., for Esselte Corporation, an intervenor. Jennifer R. Fantuz, Esq., Government Printing Office, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably determined to reprocure defaulted requirement from other than protester, a joint venture that was the evaluated next low bidder on the original procurement, where preaward survey information indicated that protester and component companies had performed late on numerous recent contracts, while awardee had recently performed similar work successfully. DECISION Bluff Springs Paper Company, Ltd./R.D. Thompson Paper Products Company, Inc. Joint Venture protests the award of a contract to Esselte Corporation pursuant to the Government Printing Office's (GPO) reprocurement of modular disability folders under program No. C684-S. The joint venture asserts that GPO improperly found it nonresponsible, and thus ineligible for award. We deny the protest. The reprocurement followed the termination for default of a contract for the requirement that had been awarded to Thom-Tex Paper Converting Corporation. The contracting officer, reprocuring without resoliciting, first considered the feasibility of an award to the joint venture, since it had been the evaluated next low bidder after Thom-Tex under the original competition. However, based upon October 19, 2000 preaward surveys of Bluff Springs and R.D. Thompson individually, GPO determined that the joint venture was nonresponsible due to unacceptable past performance, and therefore issued a purchase order to Esselte on October 23.

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