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B-278215.4 1 (1998-03-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahnk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Alamo Aircraft Supply, Inc.; Merchants World Surplus Enterprises, Inc.; Associated Aircraft Manufacturing & Sales, Inc.; Blazer Surplus; Dixie Air Parts Supply, Inc. File: B-278215.4 Date: March 11, 1998 John J. Fausti, Esq., and Stephanie L. Buser, Esq., for the protesters. Robin Walters, Esq., and Michael J. Malone, Esq., Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. John L. Formica, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency acted reasonably in amending a solicitation for the sale of surplus property, rather than canceling and reissuing the solicitation, where the nature and scope of the changes were not so substantial as to warrant the cancellation and reissuance of the solicitation. DECISION Alamo Aircraft Supply, Inc., Merchants World Surplus Enterprises, Inc., Associated Aircraft Manufacturing & Sales, Inc., Blazer Surplus, and Dixie Air Parts Supply, Inc. protest the decision of the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), Defense Logistics Agency, to amend, rather than cancel, a solicitation for the sale of surplus property. The protesters, none of whom had submitted proposals in response to the solicitation, assert that the changes made by the amendment are so substantial that the agency must cancel the solicitation and issue a new one to afford all potential bidders an opportunity to compete for the contract. We deny the protest. The solicitation represents a pilot initiative under which DRMS will award a term sale contract, with a 5-year performance period, to the high bidder for five categories of surplus Department of Defense industrial property. The solicitation provides for a two-step approach, under which firms were required to submit technical proposals by September 30, 1997, in response to request for technical proposals (RFTP) No. 99-7005. Those bidders whose technical proposals are found by the agency to be technically acceptable, based upon the RFTP's evaluation criteria, will be invited to submit sealed bids in response to an invitation for bids, with award being made to the high bidder. DRMS estimates that the surplus

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