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B-419424 1 (2021-02-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecmh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 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 a GAO Protective Order. This version has been Decision approved for public release. Matter of: Melwood Horticultural Training Center, Inc. File: B-419424 Date: February 10, 2021 Meghan A. Douris, Esq., and Ryan M. Gilchrist, Esq., Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, LLP, for the protester. Tami S. Hagberg, Esq., and Brian C. Caney, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services; Timi Nickerson Kenealy, Esq., U.S. AbilityOne Commission, for the agencies. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging actions taken by a central nonprofit agency in connection with the allocation of a federal agency's requirement to a nonprofit agency under the AbilityOne program is dismissed because the U.S. AbilityOne Commission has exclusive authority under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act to establish and maintain the procurement list for the AbilityOne program in accordance with the overall purpose of the act. DECISION Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc., of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, protests the terms of Opportunity Notice No. 3981, which was issued by SourceAmerica, a central nonprofit agency, for complete facility maintenance services at the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) facilities in Washington, D.C. The protester alleges that the procurement is being conducted in a manner that contravenes the requirements of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (JWOD Act) and that Act's implementation under the AbilityOne program.1 1 The AbilityOne program is among the nation's largest sources of employment for people who are blind or have significant disabilities. The program is administered by the U.S. AbilityOne Commission, which is the operating name for the Committee for Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, which Congress established pursuant to the JWOD Act. See Goodwill Indus. of the Valleys; SourceAmerica, B-415137, Nov. 29, 2017, 2017 CPD ¶ 369 at 1 n.1. For clarification, references herein to the Commission or the Committee are to the U.S. AbilityOne Commission; references herein to the agency are to HHS. Following receipt and

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