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B-416416 1 (2018-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: IDEAL Industries, Inc. File: B-416416 Date: July 26, 2018 James W. Kim, Esq., McDermott Will & Emery LLP, for the protester. Wade L. Brown, Esq., and Misty L. Caldwell-Colen, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of corrective action taken in response to a post-award, agency-level protest is denied where the corrective action was within the agency's discretion and appropriate to remedy the concerns raised in the agency-level protest. DECISION IDEAL Industries, Inc., of Sycamore, Illinois, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command, in response to an agency-level protest filed by another offeror (Offeror A) against the award of a contract to IDEAL under request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-16-R-0092 for tool kits. The protester alleges that the agency's corrective action--which consisted of terminating IDEAL's contract, and reopening and amending the RFP--was unreasonable. The protester also complains that the release of its pricing information from the original contract without releasing the pricing of other offerors improperly puts IDEAL at a material disadvantage. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP, issued on October 30, 2017, sought proposals for a contractor to supply general mechanics tool kits (GMTKs), which are military-use containers packed with specialized hand tools for the maintenance of vehicle platforms. Agency Report (AR), Tab 4, RFP, at 2; AR at 1 n.1. The RFP contemplated the award of a single, fixed-price, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with five 1-year ordering periods. RFP at 1; AR at 1.

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