A firm protested the Government Printing Office's (GPO) failure to solicit its bid for copying and duplicating services, contending that GPO was required to supply it with a copy of the solicitation, since it was the incumbent contractor. GAO held that GPO: (1) was not obligated to solicit the protester, since it was not a GPO incumbent contractor; (2) reasonably used bidder mailing lists from a p...

PROCUREMENT Sealed Bidding Invitations for bids Competition rights Contractors Exclusion Protest alleging that Government Printing Office (GPO) improperly failed to solicit protester is denied where GPO had never procured the services before. Was not previously responsible for maintaining the mailing list of potential bidders. The IFB is for a 12-month term requirements contract for short- run. Wo...