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B-289432 1 (2002-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodb0001 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: Downtown Legal Copies File: B-289432 Date: January 7, 2002 William E. Slade, Esq., Patton Boggs, for the protester. Roy E. Potter, Esq., Government Printing Office, 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 Contention that agency wrongly rejected protester's low bid for copying services after determining that it was not responsible is denied where the record as a whole shows that the agency's nonresponsibility determination was not unreasonable. DECISION Downtown Legal Copies (DLC) protests the determination that it is not a responsible bidder, and the resulting rejection of its low bid, by the Government Printing Office (GPO) under invitation for bids (IFB) No. 2085S, issued to procure color and black- and-white copying services for the Department of Agriculture, the Forest Service, and various other federal agencies with offices in the Juneau, Alaska area. DLC argues that the agency's nonresponsibility determination lacks a reasonable basis. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The IFB here contemplated the award of a fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity requirements contract for a period of 1 year, followed by four 1-year options. The successful bidder is to produce, at a facility within a 35-mile radius of Juneau, flat forms and books requiring black and color copying, an assortment of binding styles, packing, labeling, and delivery. The IFB estimated an annual average of 64 form orders and 157 book orders, with most orders copied or printed on standard-sized (81 by 11 inches or smaller) paper. In addition, the IFB identified 14 different types of stock to be used in the printing

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