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B-191078 1 (1978-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgbl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I ' THP OFFE1TTROLLERI RENWHAL DECISIlON . 1 UNITEo avATas 5 w .TON. DC. 2054 FILE: f-191078 DATE: Way 17, 1918 MATTER OF: Kent Watkins & Associates, Inc. DIGEST: Sole source award, in form of modification to existing contract which doubles contract costs and performance period, is not legally justi- fled where agency relies solely on incumbent's experience with project, agency's desire to avoid administrative inconvenience, and costs resulting from change of contractor, but does not establish that incumbent is uniquely quali- j tied to provide required services. GAO therefore recommends that agency conduct competitive procurement and terminate existing contract should award to firm other than incumbent be advantageous to the Government. Kent Watkins & Associates (KWA) protests through its counsel the issuance of Amendment No. 3 to contract No. 5-4106, between Coopers and Lybrand (Coopers) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), for technical consultant services in the monitoring and evaluation of HUD's Target Projects Program (TPP). KWA contends that by rPlre than doubling the original contract both in terms of cost and period of performance, as well as providing an altered Statement of Work, the amendment constituted a cardinal change beyond the scope of the contract and that the agency requirement should have been the subject of a competitive procurement instead of what in effect constituted a sole source procurement which HUD has not justifieu with legal sufficiency. KWA requests that the contract be terminated for the convenience of the Government and competitively resolicited or, in the alternative, that KWA be awarded proposal preparation expenses for the proposal it pre- pared in expectation of the competitive procurement which HUD'S Government Technical Representative (GTR) Lad ailegedly promised KWA. 61

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