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B-292568 1 (2003-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacylc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Global Solutions Network, Inc. File: B-292568 Date: October 3, 2003 Ronald Newlan for the protester. Mark Langstein, Esq., and Terry Hart Lee, Esq., Department of Commerce, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's determination not to set aside procurement for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses was reasonably based on the agency's determination that it did not expect to receive proposals from at least two responsible HUBZone firms capable of satisfying this solicitation's particular requirements at fair market prices. DECISION Global Solutions Network, Inc. protests the terms of solicitation No. AB133C-03-RP- 0047, issued by the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for database management support services to support and maintain NOAA's environmental databases. Global maintains that the RFP, issued as a small business set aside, should have been set aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) businesses. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued June 18, 2003 as a small business set aside, contemplated the award of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a base year with 4 option years. The statement of work required services to develop and maintain NOAA's environmental databases in three general categories: (1) to serve as an integral component of NOAA's Watershed Database and Mapping Projects, (2) to support site-specific investigations, including evaluations of risk to NOAA resources at priority waste sites, and (3) to explore innovative approaches for evaluating

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