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B-416851.9 1 (2020-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebyd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: The State of Oklahoma File: B-416851.9 Date: September 22, 2020 Peter A. Nolan, Esq., and Andrew J. Schumacher, Esq., Winstead PC, for the protester. Alan Grayson, Esq., Law Office of Alan Grayson, for Mitchco International, Inc., the intervenor. Andrew J. Smith, Esq., and Dana J. Chase, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Lois Hanshaw, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest by a state licensing agency, filed after the conclusion of binding arbitration with the Department of Education, challenging the elimination of its proposal from the competitive range and award of a contract under a solicitation issued pursuant to the Randolph-Sheppard Act is dismissed. The Act gives authority for review of disputes between federal agencies and state licensing agencies regarding these procurements to the Secretary of Education, not the Government Accountability Office. DECISION The State of Oklahoma, a state licensing agency (SLA), protests the award of a contract to Mitchco International, Inc. (MCI), under request for proposals (RFP) No. W9124J-18- R-0024, issued by the Department of the Army for full food services and dining facility services at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The protester contends that the agency has failed to comply with various provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard Act (RSA). We dismiss the protest. BACKGROUND We provide a brief history of this procurement, which has been the subject of multiple protests before our Office.

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