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B-413779 1 (2016-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsxc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General V f Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Patriot Solutions, LLC File: B-413779 Date: December 22, 2016 John Tellier, for the protester. Steven Thaler, Esq., and Marianne Cantwell, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries, Inc., for the agency. Charmaine A. Stevenson, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly converted the best-value tradeoff competition set forth in the solicitation into a lowest-priced, technically acceptable competition is sustained where the record shows that the agency did not perform a best-value tradeoff and instead selected the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offers for award. DECISION Patriot Solutions, LLC, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, a small business, protests the award of contracts to Wonder State Box Company, of Conway, Arkansas, and Sigma Supply, Inc., of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. CT2211-16, issued by Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (UNICOR)l for various corrugated containers. The protester contends that the agency failed to perform a best-value tradeoff as stated in the solicitation, and instead selected the lowest-priced, technically acceptable (LPTA) offers for contract awards. We sustain the protest. 1 Federal Prison Industries, Inc., which operates under the trade name UNICOR, is a wholly-owned government corporation within the Department of Justice.

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