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B-290644 1 (2002-09-13)

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         G     A    0                                                Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability                               of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: TRS Research

          File:       B-290644

          Date:       September 13, 2002

          Robert G. Fryling, Esq., and Edward J. Hoffman, Esq., Blank Rome Comisky &
          McCauley, for the protester.
          Capt. Gregory A. Moritz, Department of the Army, and John W. Klein, Esq., and
          Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies.
          Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          1. Protest of consolidated procurement is sustained where solicitation consolidated
          procurement requirements previously provided under separate smaller contracts,
          and was likely to be unsuitable for award to a small business, and thus constituted a
          bundled procurement, and record shows that agency failed to comply with
          requirements to demonstrate that bundling was justified.

          2. Agency improperly failed to coordinate its anticipated consolidated procurement
          with the Small Business Administration, as required by statute and regulation, since
          small business contractors currently perform work included in the consolidated
          procurement and magnitude of the consolidated procurement renders small business
          participation unlikely.
          DECISION

          TRS Research, a small business, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP)
          No. DAMTO1-02-R-0028, issued by the Department of the Army, Military Traffic
          Management Command (MTMC), for the award of a fixed-price indefinite-quantity
          contract for container program management services to meet Department of
          Defense (DOD) needs for leased intermodal container equipment worldwide.'


          'The intermodal containers permit transshipping of cargo among sea, highway, rail
          and air modes of transportation.

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