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B-298197,B-298197.2 1 (2006-07-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczpp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0Comptroller General c 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: Tarheel Specialties, Inc. File: B-298197; B-298197.2 Date: July 17, 2006 Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., and Nicole S. Allen, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, PC, for the protester. Aaron T. Marshall, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, and Michael D. Tully, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of issuance of a task order to a vendor for support services pursuant to its General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is sustained where the contracting agency improperly determined that the services called for under the task order were within the scope of the vendor's FSS contract. DECISION Tarheel Specialties, Inc. protests the award of a task order by the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS/ICE) to USIS under that firm's General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract No. GS-07F-0385J. The task order was issued pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. HSCEOP-06-R-00004 for services to support the agency's National Firearms and Tactical Training Unit (NFTTU) Armory Operations Branch. We sustain the protest. The NFTTU, located in Altoona, Pennsylvania and New Brunswick, Georgia, is responsible for the acquisition of all DHS/ICE firearms, ammunition, and related equipment. These responsibilities include the testing and evaluation of new technology and maintenance of a quality control program for items purchased; the repair and modification of DHS/ICE firearms; the disposal of excess firearms; the inventory management and control of all DHS/ICE firearms and ammunition; the collection, analysis, and reporting of all DHS/ICE shooting incidents; the training of field armorers; the training of personnel involved in the Firearms Inventory

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