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B-402785.2 1 (2010-08-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbln0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 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: Systems Integration & Management, Inc. File: B-402785.2 Date: August 10, 2010 Cynthia Malyszek, Esq., Malyszek & Malyszek, for the protester. J. R. Cohn, Esq., United States Marine Corps, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of 3-month sole-source task order for interim services placed against Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract is denied where the services were urgently required and agency reasonably concluded that following the applicable FSS competitive ordering procedures would result in unacceptable delay. DECISION Systems Integration & Management, Inc. (SIM), of Arlington, Virginia, protests the Marine Corps's issuance of a 3-month task order to Management Consulting, Inc. (MANCON), of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for electronic systems and equipment maintenance services in support of weapons training ranges at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. We deny the protest. The protest here follows an earlier protest by SIM, objecting to the issuance of a 2-year (1 base plus 1 option year) task order for the same services to MANCON under request for quotations (RFQ) No. M67001-10-Q-0050. We dismissed that protest as academic after the agency notified us that it was terminating MANCON's task order and resoliciting the requirement. See Systems Integration & Mgmt., Inc., B-402785, May 26, 2010. On May 20, the same day that it terminated the 2-year task order, the agency issued a 3-month task order to MANCON to provide services while it conducted the resolicitation. The protester argues that the agency improperly issued the short-term order to MANCON on a sole-source basis. SIM contends in this connection that MANCON is not the only firm capable of furnishing the needed services.

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