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B-311005 1 (2008-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Strong Environmental, Inc. File: B-311005 Date: March 10, 2008 Richard Verch for the protester. Emily Vartanian, Esq., Library of Congress, for the agency. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the decision. DIGEST Protest of use by Library of Congress of cooperative agreement instead of contract for disposal and recycling of cassette tape players is denied where the applicable regulations do not require use of a contract for the requirement. DECISION Strong Environmental, Inc. protests the decision of the Library of Congress to provide for the disposal and recycling of talking book cassette tape players through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between itself and Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (UNICOR), rather than through a previously conducted competitive solicitation for the same requirement. Strong contends that the Library has improperly used the UNICOR MOU for the requirement and should have awarded a contract to Strong under the solicitation. We deny the protest. On January 31, 2007, the Library issued solicitation No. NLS20070070 for services to dispose of talking book cassette tape players for the Library's National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) program. The solicitation was intended as a continuation of the Library's previous practice of disposing of NLS equipment through contracts arranged by NLS, rather than through the Library's

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