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B-418337.2,B-418337.3 Sep 02, 2021 1 (2021-09-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaomuy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Ijoo U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G A O A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has L been approved for public release. Matter of: SupplyCore, Inc. File: B-418337.2; B-418337.3 Date: September 2, 2021 William E. Hughes, Esq., Julia Banegas, Esq., and Maya A. Desai, Esq., Husch Blackwell LLP, for the protester. Gary J. Campbell, Esq., G. Matthew Koehl, Esq., and Lidiya Kurin, Esq., Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, for Noble Supply & Logistics, and David Z. Bodenheimer, Esq., Andrew Victor, Esq., and Samuel Van Kopp, Esq., Nichols Liu LLP, for PAE-IMK International, LLC , the intervenors. Andrew T. McGuire, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Jacob M. Talcott, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests challenging adequacy of agency's discussions are denied where agency informed protester on three separate occasions to improve its price, and identified the specific areas in need of improvement. DECISION SupplyCore, Inc., of Rockford, Illinois, protests the award of two contracts under request for proposals (RFP) No. SPE8E3-19-R-0001, issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), for the agency's maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) Tailored Logistics Support Prime Vendor (TLS PV) program for the Pacific region. SupplyCore challenges awards to Noble Supply & Logistics, of Rockland, Massachusetts and PAE-IMK International, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia. SupplyCore argues that both award decisions were flawed because the agency failed to conduct meaningful price discussions with it. We deny the protests. BACKGROUND On August 27, 2019, DLA Troop Support issued the RFP under the agency's MRO TLS PV program for the Pacific region. Agency Report (AR) at 2. The MRO TLS PV program consists of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts awarded by zone. Id. The awardees are responsible for supplying a wide range of commercial,

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