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B-299407 1 (2007-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiwu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G AComptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: International Filter Manufacturing, Inc. File: B-299407 Date: April 10, 2007 William Blakely, Esq., and Lauren P. DeSantis-Then, Esq., Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC, for the protester. Michael Walters, Esq., and Matthew Geary, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency should have issued a solicitation for part kits as a set-aside for historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) small business concerns is denied, where the acquisition was below the simplified acquisition threshold and thus was not required to be set aside for HUBZone small business concerns; in any case, the agency's market research did not reveal that the agency could reasonably anticipate receiving offers from two or more HUBZone small business concerns. DECISION International Filter Manufacturing Corp. (IFM) protests the decision of the Defense Logistics Agency, Defense Supply Center Columbus (DSCC) to issue request for quotations (RFQ) No. SPM7MO-07-Q-0194 for part kits on an unrestricted basis rather than as a historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) set-aside. We deny the protest. IFM is a small disadvantaged, woman-owned, minority-owned, HUBZone business concern that manufactures filters and assembles part kits. In the past, IFM has provided fluid pressure filter part kits to the agency that included its manufactured filters under a HUBZone set-aside contract. The contract was set aside for HUBZone contractors because the filter, which constituted a large portion of the kit, was manufactured by HUBZone small business concerns, including IFM.

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