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B-297616,B-297616.2 1 (2006-02-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczle0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General WAN Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: M.D. Thompson Consulting, LLC; PMTech, Inc. File: B-297616; B-297616.2 Date: February 14, 2006 Charlotte Rothenberg Rosen, Esq., Bradley D. Wine, Esq., and Joseph R. Berger, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, and G. David Fensterheim, Esq., Fensterheim & Bean, P.C., for M.D. Thompson Consulting, LLC; Kenneth B. Weckstein, Esq., and Shlomo D. Katz, Esq., Epstein Becker & Green, PC, for PMTech, Inc., the protesters. Helaine G. Elderkin, Esq., and Carl J. Peckinpaugh, Esq., for CSC Systems & Solutions LLC, an intervenor. Laura L. Hoffman, Esq., and Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq., Department of Energy, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests are sustained where agency notice of intent to modify contract to extend performance on a sole-source basis did not comply with requirement for an accurate description of the services to be furnished and thus did not provide enough information to allow all prospective sources a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate the ability to meet the agency's requirements. DECISION M.D. Thompson Consulting, LLC and PMTech, Inc., both small business concerns, protest a 9-month extension of a sole-source bridge contract by the Department of Energy (DOE) for guidance development services. Thompson and PMTech argue that the agency failed to properly synopsize the requirement in order to allow them to prepare meaningful responses, thus rendering the sole-source contracting action improper. We sustain the protests. On November 10, 2005, DOE published a Presolicitation Notice on the Federal Business Opportunities website (www.fedbizopps.gov) expressing its intent to

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