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B-403321 1 (2010-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbmg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL AL G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-403321 Date: September 27, 2010 Bruce H. Kleinstein for the protester. Scott C. Briles, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, 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 that agency failed to provide maximum practicable preference to making multiple awards under solicitation for services is sustained where record fails to support contracting officer's conclusion that multiple awards were not appropriate. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. (VI), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, protests the determination by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to award a single indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract, rather than multiple contracts, under request for proposals (RFP) No. 2010-N-12083, for support services for the preparation of toxicological profiles. We sustain the protest. IVI argues that the agency has not adequately justified its decision to award only a single contract. As discussed below, we agree. 1 The RFP on its face provides for the possibility of multiple awards through its incorporation by reference of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) §§ 52.216-27 and 52.215-1. However, it is clear from the record that the agency has already decided to make a single award here; specifically, the contracting officer stated in a June 26, 2010 memorandum that she had determined that awarding this contract as a single award IDIQ rather than a multiple award IDIQ is in the best interest of the Government. Agency Report (AR), Tab 5.4. Accordingly, we consider IVI's protest to be ripe for our review.

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