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B-288501 1 (2001-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamsa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Maryland State Department of Education File: B-288501; B-288502 Date: August 14, 2001 Elliott L. Schoen, Esq., State of Maryland, Office of the Attorney General, for Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services, the protester. John D. Inazu, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests filed by a state licensing agency for the blind alleging solicitation improprieties in two requests for proposals issued pursuant to the Randolph- Sheppard Act are dismissed because 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 General Accounting Office. DECISION The Maryland State Department of Education, Division of Rehabilitation Services, challenges the terms of requests for proposals (RFP) Nos. FA4416-01-R-0058 and FA4416-01-R-0059, issued by the Department of the Air Force for food services at Andrews Air Force Base (AFB) and Fort George G. Meade, respectively. The protester alleges that the solicitations violate certain Department of Defense (DOD) Regulations implementing the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 20 U.S.C. § § 107 et sea (1994), and violate other DOD policies and guidance related to the Act as well. We dismiss the protests. The RFPs here advised that this procurement would be conducted pursuant to the Randolph-Sheppard Act, which establishes a priority for blind persons recognized and represented by state licensing authorities (SLA) under the terms of the Act, in the award of contracts for, among other things, the operation of cafeterias in federal buildings. 20 U.S.C. § 107(b); 34 C.F.R. § 395.33(a) (2000). Under the Act's implementing regulations, if a designated SLA submits an offer found to be within

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