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B-275073 1 (1997-01-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaftg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE A protected decision was issued on the date below and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been redacted or approved by the parties involved for public release. Matter of: Rockville Mailing Service, Inc. File: B-275073; B-275073.2 Date: January 23, 1997 Jeffrey A. Lovitky, Esq., for the protester. Louis J. Kozlakowski, Jr., Esq., Blum, Yumkas, Mailman, Gutman & Denick, P.A., an interveno r. Lyman Goon, Esq., Social Security Administration, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging acceptability of awardee's proposal on the basis that awardee cannot fulfill solicitation requirement to obtain discounts for 5-digit zip code presorted mail is denied where the solicitation does not require 5-digit sorting of mail. DECISION Rockville Mailing Service, Inc. (RMS) protests the award of a contract to Jetsort Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. SSA-RFP-95-2255, issued by the Social Security Administration (SSA), for mail sorting services. RMS challenges the technical acceptability of Jetsort's proposal. We deny the protest. The RFP sought proposals for all services necessary to prepare first-class metered mail to qualify for rate discounts under the United States Postal Service (USPS) barcoded and presorted first-class discount programs. First-class mail that is presorted may qualify for discount rates when specified minimum volumes are met. In this regard, the RFP contemplates that the contractor will commingle the SSA's mail with its own sorted first-class mail to qualify for better volume rate discounts. Under the contract, the contractor will pick up SSA's first-class mail from the agency's Woodlawn, Maryland facility on a daily basis, sort the SSA's mail, add it to the contractor's other sorted first-class mail, and then deposit it at the post office for delivery. In order to permit SSA to evaluate the estimated volume of first-class mail that each offeror could commingle with SSA's first-class mail during sorting to 209227

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