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B-411074.5 1 (2017-10-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtxu0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has Decisionben fr rla. been approved fo public ------------------------------c release. Matter of: Bannum, Inc. File: B-411074.5 Date: October 10, 2017 Nancy M. Camardo, Esq., Joseph A. Camardo Jr., Esq., and Justin T. Huffman, Esq., Camardo Law Firm, P.C., for the protester. Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Esq., Alexander B. Ginsburg, Esq., and Aaron S. Ralph, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Volunteers of America Greater New Orleans, Inc., the intervenor. William D. Robinson, Esq., Seth M. Bogin, Esq., and Sarah Bloom, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice, for the agency. Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision to exclude protester's proposal from the competition is denied where the record shows that the agency's request for updated right-to-use documentation was unobjectionable, and the protester's failure to provide the documentation supported the exclusion of the proposal. DECISION Bannum, Inc., of Odessa, Florida, protests its exclusion from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. RFP-200-1244-WS, which was issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), for residential reentry center and home confinement services. Bannum objects to the agency's request for updated right-to-use documentation, and maintains that its rejection on that basis was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation, which BOP issued more than 3 and a half years ago, sought proposals for the award of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for a 1-year base period and four 1-year options. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP, at 3-4, 150, 222. The awardee was to provide residential reentry center and home